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I live in Porto Alegre, the city portrayed in this movie and this is a fake documentary. The director admited paying the people to do the acting. The whole "pig has priority" thing is a scam. Sure they pick stuff from garbage, sure there are pigs, but the situation in wich owner of the site gives preference to pigs as in the movie is fake.

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But it doesn't make it less masterful...

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Ilha das Flores is not a documentary. The film, in my opinion seems to try and explain the wide acceptance of money as a method to transfer payment to someone who can offer goods or services. It's funny to boot.
That the refuse from city dwellers is worth something to someone who might own pigs, that the picked over garbage is worth something to people, that some people are so far down the ladder of opportunities because they don't have money.

Money has a role, a purpose in our lives yet causes some great inequities in the overall rewards of life.

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Indeed. The important part of this short masterpiece is not to depict the lives of poor people in Port Alegre but people in general. The vast differences in the worth of human life despite us being all the same.
The scene where the people take what the farmer deemed unworthy for his pigs might well be staged but there are a lot of places on this planet where people have to survive on what other people, sometimes carelessly, throw away.

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So what?

Its our Nanook of the North, both still wonderful...

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