You are the salt and light of the world

Aric 2022-03-25 09:01:18

I've been practicing writing movie reviews lately.
It was very pretentious to tell a colleague that I was watching this movie recently. I was saying at the time, I don't know why this film is called The Salt of the Earth, and I was about to express my opinion. Then this colleague who used to be a reporter for a foreign-language newspaper told me that this is a famous sentence in the Bible.
Immediately, I felt that I was very shallow, and my face blushed. Fortunately, the weather was hot and I was not noticed by everyone.
A person is born as a human being, what kind of life should he walk out of to live up to his reincarnation as an adult?
I think Salgado gave us his answer. It is to travel thousands of miles, but this is not the most important thing, the important thing is to be full of love and compassion for human beings and the world. Above all, have the courage to go out.
Thinking of it this way, Salgado is a person who perfectly interprets the three points of benevolence, knowledge and courage.
Recently, I discovered that whether it is Western teachings, psychology or traditional Chinese culture, the final thing is the same. This content is called, how should we spend our hard-earned life.

Cherish what you have at the moment.
Why are Salgado's pictures in black and white? It seems so easy to miss his point. In addition, this biopic uses too many static things, photos and interviews, of course, it may be limited by the shooting time. But it still looks kind of stuffy.

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Extended Reading
  • Denis 2022-03-21 09:02:58

    A nearly missed masterpiece! The director and the master, two philosophers! Most of the shots are just black and white photography works of the master, and the deep rhythm makes Guan Hard more like reading and more surging than reading. Thinking does not have to give way to the senses. So follow the camera to Paradise Lost into purgatory, hell, and then resurrected into heaven. If people's attention is grand enough and their feelings are simple enough, then human beings may indeed have a "universal" existence... PS, the music is amazing!

  • Mina 2022-03-17 09:01:07

    The extremely humble Wenders presented the world in Salgado's eyes almost as an apprentice. The light and shadow passed through the hands of the two masters but seemed unmarked, just silently telling his own story. Because we have faced the most dark and cruel side of mankind, we have unreserved affection for all creatures in the world. After all, every one of us is the salt of the earth. For the audience, such a movie is a baptism of soul.

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.