WASTE LAND l LUCY WALKER

WASTE LAND l LUCY WALKER



Lucy Walker’s documentary is about a famous Brazilian artist who decides that he wants to work with the garbage pickers. Vic Muniz is a famous artist who’s known for his unusual art that consists of making paintings and images of unusual materials. In this documentary, the artist joints his creativity and humanity to the limits. At one point of the documentary he mentions that he it was time for him to give something back to his community and to show that art has no boundaries. Muniz decides to use the people he met to make his paintings. His paintings were large pictures consisting of several objects. The documentary really stuck be because it portrayed the sad reality of the poor people in Rio de Janeiro. One of the most beautiful aspects of the documentary was to see the people, whom collected trash for living and were proud for doing so. in fact, they all seemed to be happy doing what they do. For not stealing or being drug dealers to live. Scenes like these really get to reflect about what you have, and how lucky you are to have everything you need. We cannot exclude poor people by labeling them as worthless and lazy. Even in a dark, smelly, and terrible place like Jardim Gramacho, healing and helpful things can be done to save the environment for future generations through recycling. In my opinion, yes art can change people’s lives. Art can persuade people to do better things in life, and as we all may know art speaks. For example, art changed Muniz’s life, and after succeeding, he decided that he wanted to change other people live, by art. And he defiantly succeeded at it.  









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