ToK Essay

Now its time to talk about the essay...my essay was on the following topic:
"To understand something you need to rely on your own experience and culture. Does this mean that it is impossible to have objective knowledge?"
And my concluding paragraph was all about Slumdog Millionaire...which failed to impress me. I know this might be suprising because probably you all found it great but this 8 oscar winning movie potrayed India in sucha negative light!

I'm not a huge fan of India due to various reasons but this was just unacceptable for me. When the movie came out everyone asked me various sorts of questions like "Is India all slums?" "Do they have houses in India?" "Police has the right to beat ppl for no reason?!" "Do they actually put acids in the eyes of the kids?"

There was no stopping! It frustated me great deal whenever I heard ppl talking about how good the movie was...i found nothing too exceptional about this movie. This movie played a great role in my life though..i had a huge fight with one of my closest friend ever (not the one i worked with for my ToK presentation)..he just would not stop talking about how amazing the movie was and this was a huge mess in the end with 4 ppl arguing against each other..

I wonder if this movie would have been as big of a success if this was directed/produced by an indian...a white ma comes into our country portrays all the slums and bags 8 oscars...this is annoyes me soo much i have no words for that. What annoyes me even more is that the novel, on which the movie is based, is writted by an indian and no bloody indian could come up with the idea of making this movie!!!

Slumdog Millionaire or rather scumdog billionaire!