Slumdog Millionaire

I am sure that a lot of you have seen the movie Slumdog Millionaire and thought that it was a great movie. Well i saw it last weekend and i thought that it was an amazing movie and the filming was great. When i was watching it, some of the scenes were a bit disturbing because we see them do things to children in India that we do not see or hear about here in America. When i asked other people how they liked the movie, they said that it was really good and it showed America how bad things can be in the slums of India. 

The Rolling Stone magazine gave the movie a great review and described it as "a family film of shocking brutality, a romance haunted by sexual abuse, a fantasy of wealth fuels by crashing poverty." I though that these words were very interesting and actually captured the movie pretty well. I liked the way that the author of this article compared positive words to negative words to describe the movie. This movie gave some people positive feelings and some people negative feelings and the way that the author of the article used both positive words and negative words to describe the movie, really shows how others can view the movie differently.

Rolling Stones Article

Out of a 100 point scale where 100 means the best movie, there were 10 critics that gave Slumdog Millionaire a perfect score saying that the movie was "a globalized masterpiece, a breathless film, and exciting film, and heartbreaking at some parts also. 

Critic's Review

What did you think of the movie?

Do you think it was right to show what they do to children in India?

Were you satisfied on the impact the movie left you with?

Would you recommend it to other people to see?

Anybody Remember Timothy Treadwell?

I was watching Headline Attacks on Animal Planet and Timothy Treadwell appeared on the screen and i was in the room with my mom and told her that i watched a movie about him. I remember watching the movie with him in it and thinking that he was crazy to be living in the wild with bears. But then, they brought up more bear attacks and there were so many people that they said died because of bear attacks. I would think that anyone who loved bears would like to be around them and learn how they live and stuff like Timothy, but wouldn't people see that he died at the end of the movie and maybe be turned off of their passion? I would think so, but i guess not because there were so many other people who were around bears and unfortunately died. But what does this say about a person? It says that they are determined people who do not want to stop doing what they love and put their minds to. This reminds me of someone and that someone is Huckleberry Finn. Huck is someone who puts his mind to something and wants to stick with it. He goes through many different journeys and plans just to get Jim free because that is what he put his mind to. Huck kind of relates to Timothy Treadwell because they are both determined people who will go through anything to get to their final result. 

Do you think that Timothy and Huck relate to each other?

Can you think of anyone else that can relate to Huck?

A Pill That Can Erase a Bad Memory? 

NO WAY?

Scientists said that they may have discovered a pill that could erase someone's bad memories that they have had in the past? Could this be possible? They said that they could take an existing blood-pressure pill and it can be used to weaken or erase bad memories in people who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. 

Colleagues from the University of Amsterdam decided to show a picture of spiders with mild shock to some test subjects that would create a bad or scary memory. Then they gave half the people one type of drug, and half the people another type of drug. One group that was given the drug Propranolol, had a decreased fear response to the spider pictures after 24 hours and the fear response did not return. So the colleagues suggested that the fear was all gone.

There was not much else on the idea of these memory-erasing pills, but this is what i have discovered so far. But here are some questions to think about.

By erasing someone's bad memories, does it make the person less human?

Should everyone have to have bad memories?

By erasing these memories, is t morally right?

Would you want your bad memories to be erased?