Vik Muniz

Documentaries in today’s society are a way to provide the audience with true facts about history, nature, current events, etc. The agenda of them is to try to persuade us the audience into believing what is being stated in the documentary. Vik Muniz in Waste Land does a good job persuading his audience by showing how he is a hero by incorporating the pickers into a giant piece of art. Similarly, by focusing on the catadores low-class life, the themes: classism, the art of salvation and environmentalism overall play a huge in this working class by having an artist give the pickers an opportunity to earn more money into pieces of art. Generally, classism plays a huge part in today’s society, in Waste Land, it is a major problem with the low class the catadores are in, Muniz sees that they are in poverty so he approaches this problem by creating a giant
To help the pickers become wealthier for a short period, Muniz makes this inspiring experience for both him and the pickers embellish their beauties into a big piece of art. Once Muniz shows them his goal about these artworks the pickers were not very interested until they had finished these beautiful artworks and had sold them for money. They were all inspired by his art and also noticed that they can do more than what they are doing now. Even though Muniz did help some pickers get money, it was only for a short period of time. Once he showed them how big they can become, the next thing you know, he leaves and the pickers return back to their daily jobs. There was nothing really accomplished, he just showed how he can make a difference and then just leaves us the audience in a shock. The pickers beauties of the art played as a role of salvation but for only a short amount of time. They saw themselves not only a picker, but as how beautiful they are as a person and can create art with