THE OPINION OF THE “WORLD” – MUST SEE
Documentaries on the environment now land on our screens in whole boxes. Alarmists, anxiety-inducing, reasoned, opportunistic, ubiquitous, educational, they do not as often as necessary do justice to the cause they defend, even if it is perfectly understood. For this reason, we will appreciate this modest Greek documentary, whose graceful finesse does not detract from the local cause that occupies it. Or Elias, a small village in the center of Greece, severely depopulated (33 souls), still inhabited by old women who keep the flesh and the memory alive.
There, a surreal scene opens the film. Two men, who we will learn are cousins, talk on a dirt road next to the tomato fields, installing all-round speakers, wondering what type of music, Beethoven, Wagner or traditional Greek song, would be appropriate. best to the ripening comfort of their tomatoes. And while rises in the meadows The Master singers of Nuremberg, we tell ourselves that these two cousins are naturally crazy, who have decided to relocate the cultivation of these fruits to Elias and to export, wherever we ask, the local artisanal production in the form of tempting little pots of stuffed tomatoes. And what pots! A kilo of tomatoes is needed to fill just one.
Peeling matriarchs
With them, in support, a battalion of peeling matriarchs who not only passed on the know-how to them, but also cheerfully put their hands in the dough. We talk a lot here, in this cradle of Western civilization, and happily still, and not necessarily tomato seeds. From the cycle of life for example, one of the cousins retorting to the other: “You are describing non-existence in existential terms. “ Or further: “We have come here to resolve the unresolved. “ What a delight ! Who wouldn’t want to taste the “biophilosophical” tomatoes that these men and women make?
But things became more complex thanks to a trip where the fine team visited Brussels, to measure their chances of conquering a market padlocked by industry. Will it be necessary to replace rice with quinoa to succeed in seducing the new green palates? The stake, it is quickly understood, is far from being only local. It is about our life on this exhausted earth. Of our ability to make this world more livable for the living. Big job in perspective, but with a phalanx of shock like this, we say to ourselves that anything is possible.
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