While we have seen him be ruthless and evil previous to this, the blinding incident only confirms how heartless he is in dealing with the children, and this shot of him, at the edge of the frame, confirms that he is a villain rather than a savior for these children. The imagery shows just how dangerous and menacing Maman is. We only see his left eye in the frame, just after he has blinded a young boy to make him a more valuable beggar. Edge of Frameīoyle shoots Maman on the extreme left edge of the frame as rain pours down over the man. While the image suggests that he has chosen a life of greed and violence, he is also redeemed, having helped someone who needed it and asked for forgiveness from his god. He dies after getting shot, bathing in a tub of money. Resigned to his fate, the sacrifice he has made for his childhood friend, Salim fills a bathtub with money, the only reward for the life of a gangster, and gets into the tub with a revolver, prepared to meet his fate. Salim's deathĪfter helping Latika to escape from Javed Khan, Salim knows that he will have to face the consequences with the gangster. Images that recur include his mother being killed in the Bombay riots, and Latika smiling up at him on the train platform right before getting kidnapped by Javed's men. By slowing down the images of the memories, Boyle invites the viewer into Jamal's interior life.

The imagery lets us know that we are not in the present time, but the past, and that the images being portrayed are ones that haunt Jamal's psyche. Danny Boyle uses a slowed-down frame in order to show Jamal's memories throughout the film.

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