My wife and I recently watched the award-winning documentary Waiting for Superman, and we were stunned when it opened with this clip:

One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. . . . Even in the depths of the ghetto, you just thought, “He’s coming! I just don’t know when because he always shows up, and he saves all the good people.” . . . [My mother] thought I was crying because it’s like Santa Claus is not real. I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.

That’s why this documentary about America’s broken public education system is entitled Waiting for Superman.

A documentary about broken humanity could be entitled the same thing—or maybe Waiting for a Deliverer or Waiting for a Savior.