Isle of Flowers
- Ciça Reckziegel: Dona Ane
- Douglas Traini: Anetes husband
- Júlia Barth: Anetes daughter
- Irene Schmidt: Anetes customer
- Gosei Kitajima: Jeffu Masaki Suzuki
- Takehiro Suzuki: Suzuki Masaki Jeffu
- Luciane Azevedo: Ana Luiza Nunes
Island of Flowers is a Brazilian documentary short film by Jorge Furtado from the year 1989. In the film the way a tomato from the harvest is followed to its apparent end to a rubbish dump.
Action
In Belem Novo, Porto Alegre, Mr. Suzuki is reaping on a tomato planting tomatoes. As a person different from animals like the chicken or the whale by its highly developed cerebrum and its opposable thumb - two characteristics that are repeated throughout the film regularly. Mr. Suzuki is not even eating the tomato, but sold it to a supermarket and in return receives money. Money was introduced, because it was difficult to determine the value of a chicken tomatoes and even more difficult chicken on the value of a whale. Money can buy tomatoes in the supermarket as well as perfume saleswoman wife Ane. The process of buying, selling and profit is shown as wife Ane buys her perfume from a company that achieves a higher profit so as wife Ane resale to their customers. Your profit is high enough for tomatoes and pork.
Mrs. Ane throws down a tomato that is unsuitable for tomato sauce for pork. The so discarded tomato lands on a garbage dump, which in the case of Ilha das Flores, " flower island " called and actually situated on an island. On the island there is not only waste, but also pigs. You do not have a highly developed cerebrum and no opposable thumb, but an owner that organic material such as fruits and vegetables can pick out from the garbage and fed the best parts of the pig. What is not good enough for the pigs, is made available to poor women and children on the island, including Ms. Anetes tomato. The women and children have the disadvantage that they have no money and unlike the pigs also no owner. Ironically, it is concluded that man is distinguished from animals by the highly developed cerebrum and the opposable thumb and. Due to the fact, to be free, in poverty as in wealth
Production
Island of Flowers was shot in Porto Alegre. Filming locations included the Ilha dos Marinheiros, Ilha das Flores, the Colégio Anchieta and the Zero 512 The narrator is in the original Paulo José. Is accompanied by music of the film, among other things from the song Fantasia sobre O Guarani Geraldo flat, the guitar playing of Zé Flávio comes. The film was shown for the first time in June 1989 at the 17 º Festival do Cinema Brasileiro in Gramado.
The final movement of the film, "Freedom is a word that nourishes the dream of humanity that no one can explain, and which is understood by all " is a quote of the Brazilian author Cecília Meireles. Aesthetically similar to film a video clip: " This is true both for the voice level as well as for the image plane. The text is consistently spoken of as comment staccato -like from the off. In the same way, individual film sequences are designed with fast cuts and a wealth of images. [ ... ] Jorge Furtado superimposed on the ... level of content in the form of a collage with images and texts, which ironically distant, try to explain in the manner of a textbook, the biological, physical and economic backgrounds of the human existence and social relationships. "
Criticism
The contemporary Brazilian critics termed island of flowers as " a masterpiece. According to him, the documentary will never be the same again. " Other critics thought it was a " new, original, funny, critical, and last but not least moving. "
The Evangelical Center for Development-related film work called an island of flowers " a variety of film techniques virtuoso -use [r ] movie" presenting his message " in an equally ironic how often bitterly sarcastic form." The State Office for Political Education of North Rhine- Westphalia was: "This film is not fiction. The ' island of flowers' is a reality, as well as the competition of the poor with the pigs to waste residues. The film provoked an ironic, amused and shocked. The Ökomedia jury described him as particularly effective. '"