We were looking for this movie about an hour and a half.
Despite the fact that this film is present in many lists of the most significant environmental movies, it was very difficult to find it in order to watch.
We first looked for it in the public domain. About an hour or so.
Then we began to look for it in any access, anywhere.
During the search we found an offer to buy this movie on DVD for $ 60.
On the DVD! Not only that a DVD-player or at least a drive we have not had, we didn't want to wait until the movie will reach us on the post.
After an hour and a half search, we found the incomplete version of the film on one of the dailymotion.com .
The film missed about 10 minutes.
"Garbage dreams." This is a documentary shooting of the daily reality of people, who have the only financial support of life - the garbage.
Collection, sorting and recycling of garbage - that's all that people do know and do continue to learn in the poorest and polluted streets of Cairo.
The complete absence of disgust and fear of infection amazed me. Many of the people shown in the film work without gloves.
And the reward for such hard and harmful work is barely enough to maintain a low standard of living.
And the most amazing thing: people, who live and work in garbage, who contact with garbage 24/7, want the most everything in the world, that their rubbish remained with them, so that there would be more work. The biological instinct of self-preservation has fallen in the face of self-preservation of the financial, whose influence in many existing societies acquires vital dimensions.
The people in question do not want any other reality and only some of them represent a different future for themselves.
The film certainly evokes sympathy for the main characters and their life situations and, at the same time, I'm wondering.
If the state finds resources to pay for the services of foreign companies, whose activities comply with the standards of environmental safety and workers - this is good, ins't it?
If a significant part of the population can not re-qualify or adopt and implement appropriate safety requirements in their own processing activities, then the state's assistance will certainly be logical and appropriate.
But, and not having such help, the characters, shown in the movie, must continue to keep up with the positive changes. Especially from the frame of the film you can clearly see that neither local residents, whose life is closely connected with garbage. Neither foreign companies whose earnings depend on garbage, nor all of them together cope with all of Cairo's garbage.
Why is this film so hard to find? On one of the sites flashed an inscription about the prohibition of public access to this picture.
What is written in 10 minutes, which are missing?
I invite you to watch this movie, as it is in incomplete format. Or try also to look for it in full version.
Perhaps in your country, from your domain, this will make it easier.
What do you think about the fate of the heroes? And what is the way out of the situation you see from the outside?
If you look, I'm sure you'll think about it.
It would be great to find your thoughts in the comments.
Ksu'
For the Benefit of All Living Beings!