Isle of Flowers

(1989)

★ 8.2 IMDb · 237 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1989

Runtime: 13 мин

Country: Brazil

Director: Jorge Furtado

Cast: Paulo José, Júlia Barth, Luciane Azevedo, Ciça Reckziegel, Igor Costa, Douglas Trainini, Irene Schmidt, Gosei Kitajima, Takehiro Suzuki, Antônio da Silva

Plot

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 ironic, heartbreaking and acid "saga" of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a "Nisei" (Brazilian with Japanese origins); to a supermarket; to a consumer's kitchen to become sauce of a pork meat; to the garbage can since it is spoiled for the consumption; to a garbage truck to be dumped in a garbage dump in "Ilha das Flores"; to the selection of nutriment for pigs by the employees of a pigs breeder; to become food for poor Brazilian people.