{"id":1761,"date":"2006-04-01T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-01T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2006\/04\/01\/must-see-video-ilha-das-flores-isle-of-flowers-1989-vhs-2926\/"},"modified":"2006-04-01T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-01T23:22:00","slug":"must-see-video-ilha-das-flores-isle-of-flowers-1989-vhs-2926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2006\/04\/01\/must-see-video-ilha-das-flores-isle-of-flowers-1989-vhs-2926\/","title":{"rendered":"Must-see video: Ilha das flores = Isle of flowers  (1989) VHS 2926"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWhat starts out as a humorous take on the food chain from a middle-class Brazilian perspective suddenly evolves into a scathing indictment of the social system as it looks at what becomes of the garbage produced by the inhabitants of Porto Alegre, Brazil. This 13-minute film is little-known in the US, but it garnered enough votes  on IMDB.com to rank #14 on its list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/Sections\/Genres\/Documentary\/average-vote\">Top 50 Documentary Films by average vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though much more clever in how it jolts it&#8217;s audience&#8217;s sensibilities, the light narrative style that belies the film&#8217;s dead serious subject matter is in the vein of <span style=\"font-weight:bold\">Fahrenheit 9\/11<\/span> (DVD 775), <span style=\"font-weight:bold\">Supersize Me<\/span> (DVD 955), and <span style=\"font-weight:bold\">Atomic Cafe<\/span> (DVD 536).\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What starts out as a humorous take on the food chain from a middle-class Brazilian perspective suddenly evolves into a scathing indictment of the social system as it looks at what becomes of the garbage produced by the inhabitants of Porto Alegre, Brazil. This 13-minute film is little-known in the US, but it garnered enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}