It would be miraculous if the nightly news could take a few minutes now and then away from informing us of the crime and abuse and injustice happening everywhere and focus instead on those who are making a vital difference. Just imagine how it would effect our lives if we could feel that all was not hopeless! At least we have this documentary on this hunky artist from upstate New York who is dedicating his life to starting up hospitals in some of the poorest rural places in the world. Places where there are no doctors, even in villages with tens of thousands of people. Places where even if there are schools, parents can't afford to send their children there (especially if they're girls). The (so far) other reviewer here ("borring") obviously didn't see this film, or is sorely lacking in intelligence as well as compassion and humanity because even the poorest Americans are supremely wealthy and lucky compared to the people we see in this film. And it's unconscionable that someone would have a 'what's in it for us?' attitude in terms of other nations "returning the favor". They do return the favor. These people will ultimately be fit enough to work and get educated and get jobs to pay taxes to ultimately help fund these sort of hospitals and schools themselves. I know, I've personally seen this with the boat schools and hospitals in Bangladesh.
Anyway, this is a mostly well-done documentary, perhaps spending a little too much time on our American Mother Teresa in place of giving us more information on the clinics and communities but there's still lots of information there and Michael Daube is an interesting guy. With his movie star looks someone should get Hollywood to make a movie about him. Some A-list actor like Brad Pitt could fund all of this organization's programs for twenty years just based on a salary for one movie alone(not counting residuals of course!).
Anyway, this is a mostly well-done documentary, perhaps spending a little too much time on our American Mother Teresa in place of giving us more information on the clinics and communities but there's still lots of information there and Michael Daube is an interesting guy. With his movie star looks someone should get Hollywood to make a movie about him. Some A-list actor like Brad Pitt could fund all of this organization's programs for twenty years just based on a salary for one movie alone(not counting residuals of course!).
