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Waste Land

Documentary

Waste Land

What happens in the world's largest trash city will transform you.

7.6(127) 1/24/2010 1h 30m
Documentary

An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.

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Vik Muniz

Vik Muniz

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Lucy Walker

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BornKnight

1/5/2024

Nominated for best documentary for the Academy in 2012. I don't know if I could be wrong but some of the the reviews here are very negative from those who live in Brazil. The point of view is valid from what people say negatively about documentaries, but I also agree with another aspect - in the same way that the impact of knowing that your painting is worth so much more than you as a person in a landfill, it also shows the perspective that things can be different if you believe and fight for it, no matter how small the fight - growing in literacy, courses, and other things that I don't think people read that changed on the lives of those shown as is stated at the end of the film. He didn't take advantage of these people's lives, I believe he had a purpose and followed through by don

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