Disaster relief architecture must be simple enough for victims to build themselves.
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings.
I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.