Same title as the other posts... (Movie questions)

What do you think the film is saying about the globalization of culture through media? We see the game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” adapted in the Indian culture. Is this a sign of progress?

I think it is a sign of globalization, thus not progress, because I've always hated the fact that people copy other people's ideas for their own benefit. Like here in México. All stuff you see on T.V. (In mexican channels), comes from ideas from channels of other countries. I really don't like that. But anyways, I guess that helps the country's economy somehow.

What is this film staying about the effect of money on culture?

Money "improves" culture, making it more advanced in technology, hygiene, life quality ect... Of course if the money is used for the good of the community, which happens rarely. All our money is in hands of just a few, and only for their own.

In one exchange of dialogue in the film during the interrogation of Jamal, the police inspectors discuss the impossibility of what Jamal knows.

Police Inspector: Doctors... Lawyers... never get past 60 thousand rupees. He's on 6 million. [pause]
Police Inspector: What can our slumdog possibly know?
Jamal Malik: [quietly] The answers.
Discuss the irony in the film that Jamal “knows too much” and is suspected of cheating. Discuss the irony that in the end, his poverty may make him rich. What point is the film making? What is real wealth?

Jamal went through so many things and lived life the hard way. All of the things he remembered when answering the questions, were involved with tragedies, losses, and things that impacted Jamal as a kid. It is hard for people to forget that kind of events, besides, living on the street gives you a lot of cultural knowdledge even if you lack the proper education. Still, being asked questions that were somehow linked to his childhood took a lot of luck. I think that a person who knows too much, doesn't need money to succeed in life, as we saw the example in this movie.