One via Follow the Things.
Filmmaker Jorge Furtado follows a tomato from Mr Suzuki’s field to a garbage dump on the ‘Island of Flowers’ in Porto Allegre, Brazil. Here, a rotten one binned in Mrs Anete’s kitchen is fed to pigs. What’s left is then scavenged by local people. This eccentric 13 minute ‘masterpiece’ was made for Martians visiting Planet Earth. It explains what a human being is, what the function of money in capitalism is, why pigs are valued more than some people. It’s a parable of poverty.
A close look into the life of a tomato from plantation to consumer, until it spoils and gets sent to the garbage dump destined to be pig food. Isle of Flowers was voted the best Brazilian short film and documentary ever made.
Filmmaker Jorge Furtado follows a tomato from Mr Suzuki’s field to a garbage dump on the ‘Island of Flowers’ in Porto Allegre, Brazil. Here, a rotten one binned in Mrs Anete’s kitchen is fed to pigs. What’s left is then scavenged by local people. This eccentric 13 minute ‘masterpiece’ was made for Martians visiting Planet Earth. It explains what a human being is, what the function of money in capitalism is, why pigs are valued more than some people. It’s a parable of poverty.
A close look into the life of a tomato from plantation to consumer, until it spoils and gets sent to the garbage dump destined to be pig food. Isle of Flowers was voted the best Brazilian short film and documentary ever made.
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