A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night portrays the main character The Girl as lethal and scary, but as human in appearance and motive. She was a chador-wearing female vampire wandering in Bad City at night to stalk. Parallelly, she was also a pretty young girl wearing a striped shirt and putting on lipstick, preying on immoral men. She created her own destiny and shaped it with her decisions and actions. The life of The Girl and Arash, the male protagonist in the film, unfold in story tracking by incidents. If in Slumdog Millionaire, Latika is Jamal’s destiny, we can say Arash is The Girl’s destiny. Unlike other bloodthirsty predators, The Girl set her own code of ethics for her aim. Her targets were depraved guys such as the drug dealer and pimp
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In Slumdog Millionaire, the color yellow, color of sunshine, in some element of Latika’s clothing, symbolizes the deeper meaning of Jamal’s destiny. The image of Latika in Jamal’s mind was a beautiful girl in a yellow tunic, the bright color standing out amongst the crowds in the bustling railway station. Additionally, in the last scene, she had a shining yellow scarf when they finally reunited after the twists and turns of life. In India, the color yellow represents the happiness, it implies that the destiny Jamal created is the happiness of being with the girl he loved. She is the brilliant sunshine in his impoverished and tragic life and also a motivation force driving him to choose the paths and actions to get his destiny. In A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, the chador of The Girl is used to contribute to the theme of destiny. When she was riding the skateboard down the desolate streets of Bad City at night for stalking, her chador flapped behind her like the wings which are associated with freedom. The Girl’s chador indicates her freedom in creating her own life of a vampire. In addition, her chador looks like the cape of Batman, a fictional superhero, who courageously defended his city from dangerous criminals. Similar to Batman, The Girl killed the depraved guys to protect Bad City. Her chador represents her choices and actions that made her who she was …show more content…
They help the filmmakers to convey the significant message to their audience that we have control over our destiny. Both Jamal and The Girl played the primary role in shaping their own destiny which was determined by their life choices and then was gained by their actions. Unlike the fate which just gave them the opportunities, like opening the door in front of them, however, when they decided to walk through that door and put it in action, it was when they shaped their
In Slumdog Millionaire, the color yellow, color of sunshine, in some element of Latika’s clothing, symbolizes the deeper meaning of Jamal’s destiny. The image of Latika in Jamal’s mind was a beautiful girl in a yellow tunic, the bright color standing out amongst the crowds in the bustling railway station. Additionally, in the last scene, she had a shining yellow scarf when they finally reunited after the twists and turns of life. In India, the color yellow represents the happiness, it implies that the destiny Jamal created is the happiness of being with the girl he loved. She is the brilliant sunshine in his impoverished and tragic life and also a motivation force driving him to choose the paths and actions to get his destiny. In A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, the chador of The Girl is used to contribute to the theme of destiny. When she was riding the skateboard down the desolate streets of Bad City at night for stalking, her chador flapped behind her like the wings which are associated with freedom. The Girl’s chador indicates her freedom in creating her own life of a vampire. In addition, her chador looks like the cape of Batman, a fictional superhero, who courageously defended his city from dangerous criminals. Similar to Batman, The Girl killed the depraved guys to protect Bad City. Her chador represents her choices and actions that made her who she was …show more content…
They help the filmmakers to convey the significant message to their audience that we have control over our destiny. Both Jamal and The Girl played the primary role in shaping their own destiny which was determined by their life choices and then was gained by their actions. Unlike the fate which just gave them the opportunities, like opening the door in front of them, however, when they decided to walk through that door and put it in action, it was when they shaped their