The salt of the earth is tasteless when lost.

Ericka 2022-04-20 09:02:17

In the "Bible", the image of "salt" is mentioned several times, and here are some excerpts: "You are the salt of the world. If the salt loses its taste, how can it be made salty again? ... You are of the world. Light. . . When a man lights a lamp, he does not put it under a bucket, but on a lampstand, and it illuminates the family. So let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good deeds." Just as human beings are to the earth, they cannot be lost, and if they are lost, they are tasteless. Human life is full of imagination, diligently cultivated, and constantly created. It is a miracle on this planet.

Obviously, "The Salt of the Earth", this documentary focuses on this group of free and wild beings, so it seems natural that all the contradictory elements come into view, placing the cruelty of modern warfare and the primitive race of its own order at the same time. Inside, the angle changed again and again, and the girl under the spotlight slowly turned around.

However, these perspectives are similar to each other. They always focus on the suffering and insignificance of people. Suffering comes from lack, and human existence cannot escape lack. Therefore, we can see the lack of various perspectives, and All kinds of deep suffering.

Suffering constitutes events, but flowers represent emotions. Trees in nature live or die with the weather, and humans thrive with the environment, but trees never refuse to grow, and neither do humans. The "salt of the earth" that compares human beings to the earth's fragrance and flavor may come from the tenacity and freshness of human growth.

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  • Jedidiah 2022-03-29 09:01:07

    Re-acquainted with Salgado and his works, this guy who used to appear in my college textbooks, until today, realizes that this guy has experienced so much "pain of others".

  • Misty 2022-03-16 09:01:06

    #文德斯影展#Sebastião Salgado is a compassionate artist and the photographer most admired by wenders. Behind every photo is the world we live in every day. Wenders explains the original meaning of photograph at the beginning, Photograph=photo+graph , Photo means “light” in Latin, graph means “image”, and “photography” actually means “painting with light and shadow”. Sebastião Salgado has used the camera as a weapon throughout his life to faithfully record the subtle processes of human history, whether it is In the changing Latin America, South Africa with dead bodies, or burning Kuwait oil fields, he has never regarded himself as an outsider. It is precisely because he is so close to the truth of history that his soul was burned, and he was as sick as this suffering planet. He cursed human beings as "unworthy to live", "the most violent and evil animal" and "our sins are hard to wash." In his later years, he devoted himself to nature photography, building and cultivating vast forests with his family, and personally repairing the destroyed environment, integrating himself with nature. To be honest, I am very envious of such a life.

The Salt of the Earth quotes

  • Sebastião Salgado - Photographer: We are a ferocious animal. We humans are terrible animals. Our history is a history of wars. It's an endless story, a tale of madness.

  • Sebastião Salgado - Photographer: To think that these three-month-old trees will reach their apex in 400 years. Perhaps from there we could try to grasp the concept of eternity. Maybe eternity is measurable.