"The Fire" Is Just

What David Lean is saying is not about the inevitable defeat of a Filmmaker in confrontation with reality; he is talking about victory, a kind of victory that is a direct result of embracing reality and even seeing it as a blessing; reality as a source of inspiration. At the same time, it doesn’t mean that it is not possible to use realty deceitfully:

And as to the poets, those who go astray follow them (224) Do you not see that they wander about bewildered in every valley? (225) And that they say that which they do not do, (226) Except those who believe and do good and remember Allah much, and defend themselves after they are oppressed; and they who act unjustly shall know to what final place of turning they shall turn back (227) (QURAN, chapter “THE POETS”, translated by Shakir)

Reality works as an illuminating light which separates genuine from fake and “Being Realistic” is an ideal goal. So many pieces of Art are discredited and nullified by reality, in the eyes of an audience with a pure heart. In all honesty, how many films of the past and the present can stand the test of a reality by the name of “Gaza” and will not burn in its flames like a worthless and putrid waste? Let’s go beyond; for how many of us, a city by the name of “Gaza” has been taken into account in the way we live our lives? And how many of us are the wastes that are moving forward in the path which leads to the fire of reality that burns wastes? I bear witness that Heaven and The Fire of Hell is just…