• In Portuguese, the film is known as Lixo Extraordinário, or Extraordinary Garbage. By creating an entirely different name for an English speaking audience, how is the film altering its portrayal of Brazilians for a global audience?

Referring to the film as Extraordinary Garbage creates a very different mindset for how the film is portraying the workers. The oxymoron used implies that though garbage is perceived as filthy and useless, there are wonderful and extraordinary people working in the landfill. It paints the workers in a much more positive tone. Wasteland immediately triggers a response of a weakened landscape, filled with useless material. It paints a much more hopeless and bleak situation for the workers, which may work to exploit their situation and cause the final portion of the film to be much more dramatic and unexpected.

• Why does the film lack opinions and interviews from middle class Brazilians directly?

Though negative reactions from others are occasionally mentioned by individuals  from the Wasteland, no direct communication is documented between Vik Muniz and upper-class Brazilians. This may be an assumption that all viewers of the film enter with preconceived stereotypes that working with trash is carries negative connotations. It speaks to who this film was truly made for. Though it benefits and improves the lives of those working in Jardim Gramacho, not directly speaking to other Brazilians implies that this film was created to show upper-class individuals the lives of those below them.