Isle of Flowers (1989)
06/09/1989 (BR)•Documentary•13m
A place where there are very few flowers.
Overview
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.
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StatusReleased
Original LanguagePortuguese
Budget-
Revenue-
Keywords
- misery
- slum
- supermarket
- capitalism
- pig
- hunger
- tomato
- money
- poverty
- garbage dump
- landfill
- economic crisis
- poor
- short film