Insightful counterpointing

I watched this film expecting a stream of undergraduate left wing defamation of western imperialism and colonialism. What I saw was a far more balanced portrayal of life in a developing country where day to day lives of the small people are little affected by the clever debates of the ruling elites of their intelligentsia. Just like in South Africa, where the brightest indigenes have clambered onto the gravy train and steamed out of the station, platforms thronged with the same poor as before, so this showed the brightest and best arguing in a civilised and thoroughly decent way about whose fault it is that poor people are still poor, whilst sad lives are lived literally threading through the debates to no benefit. The irrelevance of the debates (because of their fruitlessness) was beautifully shown where a group of bored locals outside the wall disconnect a speaker, showing how uninteresting the whole prolonged argument has become. And the loftiness of the clever and impassioned rhetoric is counterpointed wonderfully by the sadness of the end of the film, showing that despite all the wonderful words real lives go on without benefit to the crowds left behind on the station platform.