Tuesday, March 31, 2009

some thoughts

I have seen a movie called “slum dog millionaire”. Although this movie has a happy ending I still feel very sad after I finish it. It makes me think of my homeland—China and I begin to think about this film and a kind of relationship between India and China.
This story happens in India. A boy who was born in a slum becomes millionaire through a show called “who want to be a millionaire”. After I finished watching it for the first time, I started to feel familiar with the topic of this film but still did not know why. So I watch it for a second time. Then I understand gradually. It is because from this Indian film I can see a kind of China. India is so similar to China. They are both developing countries with huge population. They are both facing same kinds of problems.
I think the first problem is poverty. The dirty crowded and noisy life in the slum the huge rubbish hill with lots of buzzing flies flying around they are just like what we have seen in the poor areas in some parts of China. People who live there are really poor but they have no chance to change their living conditions. They live quite tough life. Both of India and China are facing this awkward problem, as developing countries they have such a huge gap between the rich and the poor. The poor’s health safety and food cannot be guaranteed by the government.
The second is inveigling children to work for them as a beggar. Some people both in India and China steal infants or give food to some vagrant children and take them together then they control these children and make them to ask for money from the passers-by. These children are often be beaten and made as disabled persons by some of chemical reagents to gain sympathy from the passers-by so that they can ask for more money from them. I have met children like that many times in my city. So I really understand what kind of life they are living.
China says it is the biggest socialism but corruption still generally exist in the government and the Communist Party, different classes still oppose each other. Just like the problems which are reflected by the film and really happen in the India society.
In the film I can also see the economy is quickly developing in India just what is happening in China. So many religion clashes make many people die in both India and China.
India and China, these two neighbour countries have so many similarities in different aspects. After watching the film and thinking about these two countries. I have a directly feeling about the sentence “India magnifies all the social problems which exist in China society”.

1 comment:

  1. Hmm insightful thoughts. Really interesting wu bo. Keep it up.

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