"Do you believe in humans?"
"Do you believe in this world?"
"I can't trust this world anymore"
This is Salgado's answer, if someone asks you, what is your answer?
I accidentally clicked on this documentary "The Salt of the Earth" and was attracted by the black and white photos at the beginning. Unlike the grandeur of ordinary documentaries, this film is more of a direct torture of the soul.
There are no scenes with gorgeous landscapes, and no touching narration. Most of the time of this documentary is a slideshow composed of amazing black and white photos. The protagonist seems to be your friend. Looking at his photo album, he tells you his life and the world in his eyes.
The film "Salt of the Earth" takes time as the axis, and is produced by photographer Salgado's "Another America", "Sahel Zone" and "Genesis", and these three works are also the charm of the film, it deeply interprets What is truth, goodness and beauty, so that people who understand the film suddenly become enlightened.
real. In front of gold, both intellectuals and land farmers exposed their most real desires. The first black-and-white photos of "The Salt of the Earth" are the photos in "Another America". The people in the photos, whose faces are smeared as black as sand, carry bags of heavy sand and simple ladders on their backs. Down to the bottomless abyss, they have to go back and forth fifty or sixty times a day, just to be able to return with a full reward in one of them.
Goodness, those who see darkness are also eroded by darkness, Salgado's goodness, in the walking of suffering in Latin America, in the oil field fire in Kuwait, in the massacre in Rwanda, in the famine of Ethiopia is destroyed step by step. When he arrived in Rwanda for the third time to shoot the project and witnessed tens of thousands of refugees being driven from the east and west but still unable to escape the fate of death, his kindness was broken and his trust in the world was shattered. I have nothing to trust in the world." Such heart-wrenching words, how disappointing it is to have such a sad expression.
The disaster of mankind is also the disaster of the earth. After seeing a world full of hunger, corpses, and devastated world, he returned to Brazil and looked at his hometown, which was far from his memory. After his wife mentioned it, he started in his hometown. Planting trees seems to want to use personal strength to make up for the pain that the earth bears. With the efforts of him and his family, they have planted 2.5 million trees to create an ecological environment, adding a touch of green to the earth. As he said, this is written to A love letter to the earth. It was also under this "love letter" that his heart was healed, his kindness was re-established, and he made it possible for him to continue his life.
Beauty is the most beautiful but nature. A humanistic photographer, after seeing human disasters, he returned to nature. In his new work "Genesis", he expressed his reverence for life on earth with his actions, spanning the Antarctic, the North Pole, the mountains and the wilderness, Rivers, lakes and seas, he records the beauty of nature with his camera, and writes the boundless love with his life.
This is a film worth pondering carefully. Its charm is contained in every black and white photo. Salgado is like a messenger of God, writing an infinite legend in his limited life.
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