If the first half is a morality tale as you suggest, then doesn't the movie end like it has to? Morality tales don't work unless you someone learns something or something is resolved.

and the second half doesn't betray the first half at all. Everything in the first half is mirrored or resolved in the second half. And not just the game show question stuff. Nothing is wasted. if you really look at the film, everything in the second half relates to the first.

i.e. when they are little kids, Jamal tell Latika that he's gonna make a lot of money so he can buy them a house on Harbour Road and live well. What ended up happening? Even though the money was a distant second to the girl, it happened. Which plays perfectly into the destiny theme running throughout the WHOLE movie.

Another example is the beggar scam dude. He made Salim go get Jamal so he could blind him too. Even though Jamal couldn't sing worth shit, he wanted to be unnecessarily evil and make Jamal sacrifice his brother. That very same act got him killed. If he had told Jamal to go get some other random kid, they wouldn't have run away and eventually came back on his ass with the revolver.

I just strongly disagree that the film is as bi-sected/incomplete as you suggest.

>the first half of the movie was one thing, a morality tale of
>sorts, and the second half just slid into something different.
>Everything being wrapped up with a positive ending seemed to
>betray the first half of the film.
>
>It's also really interesting how hard people are taking
>criticism of this film.


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