Should you watch Isle of Flowers?
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Isle of Flowers
Documentary · 1989
A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.
The sides of Isle of Flowers
- A tomato from a field to a dump
- A narrator explaining everything like a textbook
- People waiting after the pigs for food
Isle of Flowers is good for you if…
- you like a cold, deadpan voice that makes you laugh before it hurts.
- you can take an ending that leaves you with nothing to hold on to.
- you want something that hits hard in thirteen minutes.
Isle of Flowers is bad for you if…
- you won't read subtitles, even for a short film in Portuguese.
- you can't bear to see hunger and poverty on screen.
About: poverty · money · dignity
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