I would think part of this is done in order to make a more palatable and popular product. Can’t offend the Western white hordes too much. So rather than equating capitalism with heroin usage, let’s see it as the solution to the Indian kids problems. Rather than addressing the colonization of the Scottish and integration into an imperial economy, let’s actually emulate that structure in the very political economy of filmmaking of *Slumbdog Millionaire* and in many ways replicate a neo-colonial relationship with India. The very critique that Boyle use to so saliently apply in his films addressing colonization has now become the modus operandi of his filmmaking.

So of course he is a perfect choice for the opening ceremonies where he can give lips service to populism while losing any sense of relevant critique to the ways in which capitalism, imperialism, and the like have constantly ground their boots on their necks. There is not such thing as society– only spectacle.