Wasteland Movie Review

Explain if you think the directors ethnic,professional, or cultural background payed a part in this movie?
Vik Muniz is Brazilian and an artist. He uses waste to make art and this film incorporates this so I do think that his background had an effect on the filming of this movie.

The artist travels to Rio. I think this is amazing. He used the visual of the trash and transformed it into art in his eyes.He uses recyclable materials and forms at. This is a wonderful way to demonstrate recycling by using visuals in the world.

The typical person would see the trash pile and only see trash. Instead he saw something with potential. He wants to make an impact on the pickers by using art. There was a nice excerpt on www.imdb.com. It went like this.

"Vik recalls an event when he was very poor and lived in Brazil. He tried to break up a fight between two men, and he was shot when he was walking to his car. Later the shooter gave him some money that allowed Vik to travel to USA. Vik and his friend Fábio spend two years in Jardim Gramacho and get closer to a group of pickers of recyclable materials and takes pictures of them. He uses his talent to make art using recyclable material and photographs the results. Then he travels to London and sells one of the portraits in an auction with the money, the pickers buy a truck, equipment and build a learning center and a library. The pickers that worked with him learn how to improve their lives and leave Jardim Gramacho"