The short documentary on a small Peruvian's journey into becoming a "developed" place in the world, offers insights into assumptions we rarely examine.
The popular notion is that "development"=wiring a place. To develop today means simply to attain a spot on the worldwide landscape of the Internet.
However, this small village has no road, a fundamental infrastructure without which the village in a geographical sense of the term, remains, as one of the wiser residents say, a "prison".
Navigating knowledge of the wider world via the medium of the screen is fine, but a prior acculturation to acquiring a sense of what's out there beyond one's village or strip of homeland, is necessary before the secondary witnessing of the world through a mediation by the Internet takes place.
It's like the hungry child has to be first fed with essential nutrients before it can successfully go on a diet of tertiary food.
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