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Clips from Waste Land (2010)

"Check out the geography of this thing."
Waste Land (2010)
"This is the end of the line..."
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"We are working with the type of individuals that..."
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"The most poisonous thing in Brazilian culture and society, is classicism."
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"It's horrible how people really believe..."
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"and I am talking about educated people..."
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"You see?"
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"It's all recycling industry around here."
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"People all dealing with garbage."
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"People look at us in a funny way, What the hell are we doing here?"
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"I see the hill."
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"Oh my God."
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"It's like a mountain."
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"Where are we exactly?"
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"Right here."
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"Hi Lucio, I'm Vik."
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"Pleasure to meet you."
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"Hi, how are you doing?"
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"What's really impressive..."
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"Yes, it's the largest landfill in terms of the volume of trash received daily."
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"The ground underneath here is all soft."
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"The landfill is like a plate of jell-o."
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"If you keep adding to it without careful balancing..."
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"You can see what they're recycling over there."
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"And it's separate there."
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"Cardboard, paper, plastics, glass, metal - they collect everything."
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"It works like a stock exchange."
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"So the recycling wholesalers tell the pickers what they need..."
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"and then that's what they collect."
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"They sell the materials right here at the landfill."
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"And then it goes to the recycling wholesalers, the intermediaries."
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"From there it goes to another company for shredding."
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"That's equivalent to the garbage produced by a city of 400,000 people."
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"- Amazing! - Yeah."
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"So that's why the pickers are really important to the landfill..."
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"because they help increase its capacity."
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"70% of Rio's trash ends up here..."
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"with the garbage from the poorest favela?"
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"Dude!"
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"Yeah, I feel right at home!"
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"It's not as bad as I thought."
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"Here we are in the largest sanitary facility..."
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"And the people are talking."
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"And I don't see people depressed or anything."
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"They seem very proud of what they are doing."
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"We better get out of here."
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"What you see up there..."
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"it looks very chaotic, but it's very organized by material..."
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"He's the radio."
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"Enjoying the game?"
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"I learned here is that they have..."
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"there own choices of solid garbage of recyclable garbage."
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"and soft drink bottles..."
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"and disposable plastic because it's lighter."
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"Yeah the trucks give us a ride up here."
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"Yeah, we have to buy them. They cost US$30."
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"What's your name?"
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"Isis Rodrigues Garros."
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"- Isis Rodrigo? - Rodrigues."
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"Let me get a portrait of you two."
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"Do it again."
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"Thank you."
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"- Bye, thank you. - Bye, Isis."
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"How about with my hair down?"
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"Film her!"
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"- Bye, thanks everyone! - Bye Isis."
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"We have to think about the future..."
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"because I don't want my son to be a picker."
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"But I'd rather he be a lawyer, to represent the pickers, you know?"
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"Or a doctor to care for the pickers in the association."
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"You haven't even built anything and you want to sell off the land."
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"Thanks to the pickers..."
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"we built a recycling center without a single cent from the city."
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"I don't know about you guys, but I'm having lunch at noon!"
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"Excuse me."
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"but who sells and is the most popular overseas."
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"Congratulations man!"
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"I grew up very poor,"
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"I want to make portraits of the pickers and then sell them."
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"All the money from the sale of the portraits will be given back to you."
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"You'll be able to do some things to make life easier for the community."
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"When we started this association, everyone laughed at us."
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"You're crazy, that's not going anywhere!"
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"Association for what? You're never going to achieve anything."
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"They said it wouldn't lead anywhere, that it would never work."
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"I believed in it. I said no."
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"Now I believe when you put your mind to something, you can achieve it."
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"Take you, for example."
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"How many people told you to give up, that it was never going to happen?"
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"Yeah, starting with my father, my own father."
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"He'd say That's bullshit."
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"It's not going to get you anywhere."
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"When we demonstrated they'd say That's not going to get you anywhere."
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"I was lucky because I had my grandmother,"
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"and she taught me to read at a very young age."
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"Yeah, reading is so important."
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"Some people are crazy and throw away their books. It's absurd."
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"I saw it yesterday and it's expensive!"
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"It looks like someone barely read it and just threw it away."
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"Wow that's great!"
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"The other pickers just tear up books and recycle them."
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"But Zumbi picks out the good books, and brings them here for us to read."
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"because they're dumped in the landfill all the time."
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"I have a plan to make a community library in my space."
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"Up until now, I've been responsible for bringing books to the association."
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"It's good to fly over..."
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"so we can see what we are up against."
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"And it's like this all over."
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"This is by far the worst I have seen."
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"It looks like they were completely left."
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"And the day after we left there..."
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"They can just stick a body there..."
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"And it's going to be under the garbage in 12 hours."
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"I already see just as a beginning."
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"I see 3 characters: Tiao, Zumbi, Isis."
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"I think we can start..."
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"something that you are doing..."
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"From above..."
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"Which so far is the best part of what we encountered there?"
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"The human factor there is beautiful really."
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