Ilha das Flores is a short film (13 minutes) that's a sort of social documentary with biting criticism of civilization's hierarchical system (meritocracy out of control with no empathy) and capitalism sprinkled with irony. Though ostensibly about the journey of a tomato, it's beautiful and devastatingly horrific and truthful. It may be the best documentary ever made. The film ends with an ironic reference to a poem by the Brazilian bourgeois poet Cecília Benevides Meireles, who is considered one of the most important poets of the second phase of the Brazilian Modernism:

"Freedom" is a word that fires the dreams of human beings. No-one can explain what it means, and no-one understands it.

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Quotes:

This is not a work of fiction.
The Isle of Flowers actually exists.
Human beings are mammals that are distinguishable from other animals, like the whale, or from bipeds like the chicken, principally by two characteristics: their highly-developed brain and opposing thumbs. The highly-developed brain gives human beings the capacity to save information, relate it, process it, and understand it. The opposing thumb enables human beings to make a pinching movement, which allows them to precisely manipulate things.
It must be pointed out that Mrs Anete has a highly-developed brain, while the pig does not have any thumbs, let alone opposing ones.
The pig does, however, have an owner. The pig's owner is a human being, with a highly-developed brain, opposing thumbs, and money.
What was considered unfit as nutrition for the pigs will be used to feed women and children. Women and children are human beings, with highly-developed brains and opposing thumbs, but no money.

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