Island of Flowers 1-2

Ilha das Flores 1989
Island of Flowers by Jorge Furtado
Part 1-2

This short documentary is one of its kind. Its an essay not written but filmed, well filmed indeed. This is a type of movie youll see by quite chance but will never forget.
At first, it may seem as an ironic and heartbreaking saga of a tomato but Jorge Furtado takes it up a notch. The ideas displayed throughout barely quarter an hour are so many and so profound that you might need more than one view to assimilate them all; but the script is so agile that you will never grow bored. Furtado is so crafty at taking you to places you never think you'll go; from painfully hilarious irony (the Monty python-esque first 5 minutes), to head-battering shock (the history of "the second"); just by mentioning a single word, you could travel from a dollar bill to a pile of emaciated bodies, within a matter of seconds. And none of the connections are far-fetched. His story is based on the theory of six degrees of separation, and how he arrives at those final, latent images of haunting truth, is a trip that must be taken.
ENJOY! :)

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