slumdog millionaire questions - andrea tamayo :)

• Is ethical decision making possible when one must make choices based on survival? Do seemingly “bad” choices make a person bad?

You can't say if it's ethical or not, because when you want to survive you would do anything to stay alive, but that doesn't mean you have to hurt the other people.
Like the saying, your rights ends when the rights of the other people start.
I don't think that when you make bad decisions you are a bad person.Maybe, you didn't know that choice was the bad choice, you didn't chose that one on purpose to do bad things.

• 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?

They think he is cheating because he knows every single anwsers, that he isn't supposed to know, because he is a slumdog, he didn't get alot of education.
But he knows everything because he learned it by experience.
By being poor, he needed to find ways to win some money, like giving tours around india to the turist people.
The film is trying to say that anyone can learn, that you shouldn't underestimate people.
The real wealth, isn't about money, its about knowledge.