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Slumdog Millionaire Satire
The Slumdog Millionaire is the film to see. Excitement tragedy love and hate it’s all featured together. The film starts by showing the poverty in India. The way that it does this is in a humorous but serious way and therefore still getting the point across. The film then goes onto show how the poor and rich are living together side by side and how there is a large divide between classes. Two brothers Jamal Malik and Salim Malik are taken in by a villain who forces the children to beg so that he makes money. They escape from this villain leaving behind them there friend Latika. After living rough the brothers manage to find Latika but then become separated. Jamal ends up working in a call centre as a tea boy and this is how he locates his brother.

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