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"why Westerners would be happy to see us poor, you would have no logical answer" Why would west want Russia to fail? Why would capitalism want communism to fail? Why would Rush Limbaugh want Obama's socialism to fail? Why would Islam want non-Islamic civilizations to fail? There are perfectly logical answers for them. "what moves me about these films is not the poverty itself but the triumph that emerges from within that dearth." So what is the liberation theology of those triumphs? Can we question that liberation theology or is it infallible too? Can it deliver liberation or is it too anti-climactic to even ask? What is celebrated here? Is it cynicism or is it hope? That people, in spite of being put down, trapped and crushed by poverty, people in India still dare to hope? That they still make lemonade out of lemons, and accept come what may as destiny? While these endangered values are lost around the world, they still thrive in India, among the most unlikely places - slums? There is no hope, but Indians still dare to hope. They know slums can not grow out of poverty by game shows, nor from millions made by selling movies. At the most, they can save only handful of slum kids. Real triumphs is when one shows a way for all the slum kids, not just a handful of slum kids. Nobody expects that to come out of movie scripts nor from snake-oil con ideologies west likes to peddle. If anything, filmy world specializes in painting fairy tales and make believe. Reality can be far from the make believe no matter how realistically they may be crafted. Tragedy is when people fall for them as real hope and real triumph. As CS says, whats the fuss?

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