I'll begin with some empathy. I understand creative space can seem to be shrinking, and gen Zrs need to explore what they may.

I grew up in a desert, and while we never lacked for anything, a basic understanding of water was ingrained early. When, in the first few seconds of this film I saw one of the makers brush his teeth with the faucet left running, I got it. Primary evidence of virtue signaling is a deep ignorance of virtue on the part of the signaler.

Who draws the poverty line? Who decides what that means? Is hunger poverty?

We primarily imitate. Until now at least some of what we imitated had some earthly roots. These kids don't even have that, but imitate them through an hour of celebrity.

How noble, now that you are back high above the line.

You can take this for what it's worth. Some of the IMDb critics make good points, some just reveal their inner hang-ups. Yes, two college kids decide to "go for it" in a poor land. Good for them. Yes, they did not work but made a budget to simulate life in poverty on a buck a day. I also felt like they had a cushion called a bank account. They at least strove for integrity with the paper number each day.

This did lack depth of character. They discussed these people had much more going than what the surface showed, but did not go there. Mistake. They are college kids, not Spielberg! If you take what they gave us, work with it. They at least did something and need credit for that! Bottom line is those in the States are like the frog in water. We are boiled to death in Western culture and those in "poverty" have far greater riches which should have been the focus.

Relationships are more solid over there. Male-female roles not confusing. Walk by faith a daily occurrence. When you have little, people are what matters. We have lost most of this in the USA. People are so consumed in their own lives (technology has made life worse relationally) that they do not trust anyone and live shallow, desperate lives by being busy to drown out the loneliness. When life crashes in, who do you call? We call 9-11, they call each other. Don't get me wrong, we are blessed, but we don't need each other anymore like they do.

So who truly is more rich?

A documentary about living on one dollar but more so about how tough life is in Guatemala. The risk taken to shoot this motion picture, was amazing. To risk your health, to shoot a documentary was outstanding. So too was the heart of the documentary, which is about poverty and financial hardship. I only gave it 9 stars because it could have been 90 minutes long, instead of being just under an hour. Although, Day 56 and a minute a day was also something new and refreshing. Inspirational work guys, well done.