The scenes of the extreme poverty in India was very sobering. Especially in America that kind of poverty is practically unimaginable. While they use real shots of Mumbai and India, it's seems more like a movie set. Like some scenery they built for the backstory they were creating.
It's practically unimaginable that people could live in those conditions and still find any happiness.
I served my mission in the Philippines. I witnessed first-hand this kind of extreme poverty. I was invited into homes bamboo walls and corregated aluminum rooves. I watched children, wearing ragged t-shirts and shorts, playing games with their flip-flops (tsinillas). I served people who would sometimes have only rice and salt to eat.
And yet, I can't even really understand what that life must be like. But I can understand how, even under the worst conditions, they manage to find happiness.
I wish that I could explain it to you.
1 comment:
Still haven't seen it and probably won't but I hear it's great. How's that for a useless comment, but it's been ages since I've commented on your blog so here we are.
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