Slum-dog Millionaire Movie Analysis

The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the most monumental day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire”. But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street boy know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer for each question he has answered so far on the game show. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's impossible questions. But one question remains a mystery: why is he doing this when he has no apparent desire for the riches? The next day Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. There are also so many economic concepts found throughout the film.

I feel that the “Adam Smith and His Invisible Hand of Capitalism” is the theory that relates to this movie the best when it comes to how the economy is set up. This theory explains an economy with a free market, and basically the economy regulates itself through the people. The government doesn't have much involvement in the people’s income,the production of goods, and etc. The people make these decisions. I believe this is best fit because Jamal and his brother lived that way to make them an income. They were the ones that purchased the goods or even stole them(like the shoes) and sold them to their customers, they chose the amount of goods they needed, and as well as how much they would be sold for. Nobody was telling them how much to produce, or how much their items need to be sold at. The government