Slumdog Millionaire

5. Is ethical decision making possible when one must make choices based on survival Do seemingly “bad” choices make a person bad?
Situations can force us to do things we don't wanna do, or if it's a case of life or death we can even do things that go against our principles, unethical decisions.
Repetead "bad" actions can change people, even if it's not really on purpose, but for example if Jamal stole or something like that, it did not have a bad influence on him because he's a really noble person and would always be.

6. What do you think the film is saying about the globalization of culture through media? We see the game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” adapted in the Indian culture. Is this a sign of progress? Why or why not? What is this film saying about the effect of money on culture?
Globalization is always in progress. The adaptation to the indian culture of Who Wants to be a Millionaire is a clear example of this. No culture should be left out, it's always good to take everyone everywhere in account. About money, the film reflects the importance of money on people's lives, as if money was everything there was in life. But Jamal does not see it that way, even though he won a lot of money, his true happiness was in Latika.

7. 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?
It's normal. Whenever someone is too good at something, people think he or she is cheating in some way. Even when Jamal always lived in poverty, he knows almost all the answers by himself because of personal experiences. As if the questions were all based on his own life, except for the few that he didn't know and he had to use the options of ask the public, 50·50, etc.
His poverty made him rich in the end, how? Jamal lived a miserable and hard life, but thanks to his experiences in that life he had, he began learning the answers to the questions he'd be asked years later, in the decisive game where he becomes a millionaire.