金馬影展至今看了不下二十部片,非得推薦必看不可的只有一部,文溫德斯拍的紀錄片《薩爾加多的凝視》(The Salt of the Earth)。觀影已五天,仍時不時會想到片中的一些畫面,幾乎想不起有哪部電影曾帶給我這般力道與餘韻。慚愧的是,看片之前我對片中主角,紀實攝影大師薩爾加多(Sebastião Salgado)所知甚少,排場次表時,被片名吸引,發現是文溫德斯導演,二話不說排進片單。
In my mind, photography is viewed as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself.
It is a path to self-expression.
What I reckon more crucial in terms of self-expression is truth rather than fact.
Fact is not as tricky as truth due to its objectivity.
Though truth is objective as well.
More or less, truth is something we are unwilling to face even if we know its existence is a fact. Eyes leak out the information that we are used to ignoring when we focus on the thing so-called fact. Are you still sure that you are truly seeing?
Truth never hides, it just seems to be invisible when you are not employing your soul to see.