I almost thought it was a very salty and missed documentary, a very meaningful documentary, neither long nor boring, even less than 120 minutes long. It is said that the original text comes from the Bible, which Jesus used to describe Christians: "You are the salt of the world. If the salt loses its taste, how can it be made salty again?" The salt of the earth is the conscience of the world. (Ashamed, I have no impression. After all, I skipped reading the Bible when I was young.) So just from the perspective, I actually prefer its other name:
"Salgado's Gaze"
But after such stares. In an age of information overload, images provide a quick way to understand something and a compressed form for remembering it. When people mention something, just remember a picture, a photo. People don't remember through photos, they only remember photos. To remember through photographs in this way erases other forms of understanding, as well as other forms of memory. For example, what many people know about all the crimes that happened in Auschwitz is that Hitler killed the Jews. A large group of people from different situations and hardships became anonymous by profession, race and suffering. Distant "exoticism" makes suffering and misfortune boundless, too vast and incomprehensible, and the sympathy of bystanders tends to be overwhelmed or numb. In the end, news became consumption, and it was occasionally mentioned in daily life, and it became a talk after dinner and was lightly ignored. This is also Susan Sontag's "If you don't think about it, the closest look is only a bystander." So it will eventually come back to the question after the gaze.
Sebastian Salgado said: "The most important thing is to understand that I am a part of nature, like a turtle, a tree, a pebble." Perhaps in the process of understanding, Everyone will have a different answer.
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