About "Salt of the Earth"

Jacklyn 2022-04-23 07:03:51

Many movie titles pursue simplicity, and many movie titles pursue gimmicks, but there are also some movie titles that have their own style and style, which are not directly touching the heart or appetizing, but a kind of meaningful, "The Salt of the Earth" when belong to this column.

To be honest, I thought it was a documentary about salt, so I put it on hold for a long time and didn't watch it. Until yesterday, when I saw the breathtaking black-and-white photos in the film, I saw Sebastian's well-deserved photography skills and the cruelty and beauty that are little-known but worthy of appreciation in the world.

Sebastian's photos have a kind of magical power. There is a desire to talk in the picture. A freeze frame is a story. You can either experience it or trigger endless imagination. Following his works, I have gone through decades of historical changes. I have seen the customs and customs of the world, and with his narration, a thin photo has become extremely heavy. This is the precipitation of emotion and long-term thinking. , also symbolizes the weight of frozen life.

From social documentary to animal and plant landscapes, where is the abandonment of one's own strengths, but a sublimation of the understanding of the meaning of human beings and the belonging between human and nature, the humility of time and space, and the duality of history and future. The value conversion of the path to the development of human civilization.

——2015.11.5

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  • Freddy 2022-03-28 09:01:09

    First of all, I have to complain that the erhu-like ghost sound of the soundtrack suddenly came up with several meanings, which is too inconsistent. I also fell asleep several times. This film is about photography. Photography is an art of silence, showing things silently in pictures, but the large number of photography works and the silence almost made me give up. Undoubtedly, those photos are unbelievably beautiful, and the photographer's feelings are also worthy of admiration. In the end, the actions of the Sebastian family were used to achieve the purpose of enlightenment.

  • Andreanne 2022-03-18 09:01:06

    What impressed me deeply was not only Salgado's photographic works, but also every story he slowly told me, watching him record the cruelest pictures on the planet after ten years. How much calamity did the soul endure before it would say "human cruelty makes us unworthy to live"? Fortunately, he was reborn in another dimension. It’s also a photographer’s documentary, this one is really much better than Vivienne Meyer’s

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.