Slumdog and Geography in India

I thought that the movie Slumdog millionare is a good movie, however if did not make me want to move to India or even visit there. The way that the film portrays India is that it is a filthy overcrowded place with very little structure in almost everyway. The movie shows how poor many people in the country are and how there is practically no help for those who have lost a parents or who need assistance. Because of this there is a large amount of kids who are trying to survive on their own and how have virtually no hope of ever being able to do something with their lives. One thing that I thought was interesting was how the movie showed the fighting that there is between the Muslims and Hindus in the country. I think for the most part that whenever we think about India we just think that there is Hinduism and Buddhism and that they are all the same to us and that there is not that much division in the country. However the movie showed that there are deep divisions in the country not only in religious areas but also in economic ways also. The movie showed some rich people who were pretty much crime lords. The way that the movie showed it the only way for somebody to get rich and move up in their community was to work for these individual crime lords and they would be able to move up over time. I really liked Slumdog Millionare, however if it was a film trying to support tourism it would fail badly.