Funny at first, smashing in the end. When I first saw the movie it was really bizarre as it was hilarious. I spent the first minutes laughing: the editing is fast paced and the voice over explains one after another different concepts that apparently are barely connected. But in the end it grows all perfectly together in order to describe us one of the most humanitarian issues of our time, all in less than 15 minutes.
Unlike the movies we discussed in class they were typical documentary boring movies with sad music as a background with basic information and enriched with interviews with people discussing their own experience about a specific matter or an issue.
Two major human rights violations seems to appear in this short documentary first …show more content…
A bed and some food: We all have the right to a good life. Mothers and children, people who are old, unemployed or disabled, and all people have the right to be cared for. - See more at: http://www.samaritanmag.com/we-have-30-basic-human-rights-do-you-know-them#sthash.wAvp1o9t.dpuf
Isle of Flowers is a 1989 Brazilian short film by “Jorge Furtado”. It tracks the path of a tomato from garden to dump with the help of a monotone voiceover and a collection of weird images.
It’s a story that guides the viewer through the life of a tomato. Starting at Mr. Suzuki's tomato farm, then to be sold in the supermarket, where it is purchased by a perfume sales woman, Mrs. Anete, along with some pork meat. With exchange of money of course which is, together with the tomato, the constant element in the story. Mrs. Anete intends to prepare a tomato sauce for the pork, but, having considered one of Mr Suzuki's tomatoes distasteful, she throws it in the garbage. Together with the rest of the garbage, the tomato is taken to Isle of Flowers (Ilha das Flores), Porto Alegre's landfill. There, the organic material considered accepted is selected as food for pigs. The rest, which is considered undesirable for the pigs, is given to poor women and children to eat. And this is where the dilemma comes to …show more content…
“There is no god” at the very beginning of the documentary “Jorge Furtado” displayed. Through it we noticed that tomato and money were the only constant elements. Adding those ideas altogether leads us to an economic, political description conclusion called “Capitalism”.
In short “Capitalism” is an economic system where means of production, industries, trade, are mostly or completely privately owned and operated for profit. In other words it means that it is all about raw materials, products, services, and whatever that can be exchanged with the presence of money, leaving all religious believes, human rights and equality among people in second to that theory, which most of the times it is the very essence of the way of treatment among human
Unlike the movies we discussed in class they were typical documentary boring movies with sad music as a background with basic information and enriched with interviews with people discussing their own experience about a specific matter or an issue.
Two major human rights violations seems to appear in this short documentary first …show more content…
A bed and some food: We all have the right to a good life. Mothers and children, people who are old, unemployed or disabled, and all people have the right to be cared for. - See more at: http://www.samaritanmag.com/we-have-30-basic-human-rights-do-you-know-them#sthash.wAvp1o9t.dpuf
Isle of Flowers is a 1989 Brazilian short film by “Jorge Furtado”. It tracks the path of a tomato from garden to dump with the help of a monotone voiceover and a collection of weird images.
It’s a story that guides the viewer through the life of a tomato. Starting at Mr. Suzuki's tomato farm, then to be sold in the supermarket, where it is purchased by a perfume sales woman, Mrs. Anete, along with some pork meat. With exchange of money of course which is, together with the tomato, the constant element in the story. Mrs. Anete intends to prepare a tomato sauce for the pork, but, having considered one of Mr Suzuki's tomatoes distasteful, she throws it in the garbage. Together with the rest of the garbage, the tomato is taken to Isle of Flowers (Ilha das Flores), Porto Alegre's landfill. There, the organic material considered accepted is selected as food for pigs. The rest, which is considered undesirable for the pigs, is given to poor women and children to eat. And this is where the dilemma comes to …show more content…
“There is no god” at the very beginning of the documentary “Jorge Furtado” displayed. Through it we noticed that tomato and money were the only constant elements. Adding those ideas altogether leads us to an economic, political description conclusion called “Capitalism”.
In short “Capitalism” is an economic system where means of production, industries, trade, are mostly or completely privately owned and operated for profit. In other words it means that it is all about raw materials, products, services, and whatever that can be exchanged with the presence of money, leaving all religious believes, human rights and equality among people in second to that theory, which most of the times it is the very essence of the way of treatment among human