At the beginning of the film, we heard the director’s confession, English, a language that is most suitable for documentary directors’ subjective confession just because of its universality. Sebastiao Salgado played, he speaks French. At that time, we did not know that he was from Brazil, but we could hear that his French was slightly different from that of native French speakers. We wondered: Why is it French?
WW also speaks French when talking with SS, but it is much lame than SS. (The director never used German from beginning to end.)
The associate director of the film, Julian Salgado, the son of SS, uses English in the first-person statement of his father's life, and communicates with his father in French in the film. He was born in a Brazilian family in France. We don't know whether he considers French or Portuguese as his mother tongue. We only know that he speaks in Portuguese when he speaks to his grandfather Sebastiao. The old man's hearing is not good, so his grandson asked him three times "Are you happy here?" He only understood it. I wonder if there is a reason for Julian's bad Portuguese.
SS followed the aboriginal people in the rain forest to take pictures of their daily life. He showed them their images in the camera, and the two parties could only communicate in sign language.
SS's interest in refugees and people who left their hometown due to wars, disasters, and capital operations is not only the fascination of the camera lens for others, because he himself was also a refugee, but the environment is much better than those people. . Until the end of the film, SS spoke Portuguese to the camera. At that time he had returned to his hometown and planted an entire rainforest with his wife. SS, who speaks Portuguese, seems to be very different from the previous photographer who used French to describe the famine, disease, killing, humanity and the extreme darkness of humanity he witnessed.
Encouraged by the miraculous reappearance of the rainforest, SS launched the filming of "Genesis". It also comes from the biblical story: People who are nostalgic for the city of sin and desire, God turned her into a pillar of salt; for people who take credit and pride, God has banned their way of communication, and the world has different languages since then; these stories seem to be similar to " "Salt of the Earth" has a faint connection.
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