The 17th Essay: Baahubali: The King of Comedy (1983, USA)

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People often wrap their sense of possibility in narratives that exceed reality. Such stories may be embraced as hope or dismissed as mere exaggeration when they lack evidence.

The Aesop’s fable The Boaster highlights this reversal, where someone who relies only on words to prove their worth is challenged to demonstrate it in reality.

In film, characters driven by a need for recognition may pursue imagined success, sometimes with comic or unsettling results. In science and medicine, however, evaluation depends not on eloquence but on reproducible facts.

Even achievements symbolized by the Nobel Prize are built not on self-presentation, but on careful verification and accumulation of evidence. No matter how powerful words may be, they cannot surpass reality—and that is both the rigor and fairness of science.

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