Isle of Flowers

1989 · 13 MIN · IMDB 8.5 · 6,769 VOTES · DIR. Jorge Furtado

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 127 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:04 This film is not fiction.
00:01:08 a human being. In this case, a Japanese.
00:01:36 Their highly-developed brain enables human beings to store, process and understand information.
00:02:17 Planet Earth produces around 61 million tons of tomato a year.
00:02:49 Money was invented by Giges, King of Lydia, in Asia Minor, 7 centuries before Christ.
00:03:17 but mostly of exchanging whales for chicken
00:03:41 Supermarkets were created to simplify the exchange of tomatoes for money.
00:04:10 She uses her brain and opposing thumbs to exchange perfumes for money.
00:04:43 Profit used to be forbidden to Catholics, but it is free for everyone now.
00:05:18 A day is the time interval the Earth takes to rotate around its axis.
00:05:46 were turned into sauce for the pork.
00:06:23 Diseases seriously impair the proper functioning of human beings.
00:06:58 Water is an odourless and colourless substance made up of hydrogen and oxygen.
00:07:35 The tomato that wasn't good for the pork that was going to feed Anete's family
00:08:04 The owner of the pigs exchanged some money for a lot on the "Isle of Flowers,"
00:08:40 Tomatoes, chickens, pigs, flowers and paper are organic materials.
00:09:06 To remember is to live.
00:09:44 and give them permission to cross the fence and get inside.
00:10:50 exchanged for perfumes from flowers, and which was not good for the sauce, nor for the pigs
00:11:37 'Free' is the state of those who enjoy freedom.
00:12:46 In reality, Mrs Anete is Irene Schmidt.
202:32:17 cycles of a caesium atom.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed127
Dialogue density9.8 lines / min
First line00:00:04
Final line202:32:17

Production Record

DirectorJorge Furtado
LanguagePortuguese
IMDb votes6,769