Eduardo Coutinho – Scavengers: Boca de Lixo
Brazil, 1993, 49 Min, Color, Portuguese
Synopsis: The daily routine of poor people of Itaoca, São Gonçalo, state of Rio de Janeiro, who make a living out of revolving garbage.
Boca de Lixo roughly translates as “garbage mouth”
Translation from Eduardo’s blog: The scenario, at first glance, might shock: a pour point of trash in Sao Goncalo, the city of Rio de Janeiro. Used syringes, food in a state of decomposition, a state of absolute misery. People select objects and food that can be reused, which was rejected by a person serves as a survival factor for this. The bleak scenario does not express the mood of collectors. There is a set of integrity and values that surpass all that state, and the camera Coutinho is responsible for this approach. Some deny things that eat trash (even if the camera denies), others say with pride, some are there because of lack of opportunity, others by choice: “(…) is better than having boss (…)”. The film is releasing the claim of an adverse context record to the standards of a society that respects the rights of its citizens and pulls her contradictions and ambiguities, which in turn, are able to resize it and reinvent it.
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY-4w-JQkOw
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crfc27TxOjs
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neXJc8WHkEM
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34EdlpwfEmc
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJVyE-m56Ow
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Emule: Eduardo Coutinho – Boca_de_Lixo-006.avi
