"Renovo" presents the incredible natural landscape of Ilha do Cardoso (south of São Paulo littoral coast) and the transformation the place suffers within
itself through rivers change, seaside, animals and the organic elements that keep changing each season goes by which also reflects in their own ways of surviving
and preserving the ecosystem.
More of the same, you probably have seen this before but considering the time in which was made (early 1980's) this is quite dazzling
in some ways - the narration by veteran actor Sérgio Mamberti is a plus (Adrian Cooper in the English version but that I couldn't find anywhere). And you probably
know that after amazing close-up shots of a peaceful and colorful nature, there'll be statistics to show the dangers such island faces with the ever growing
take over from cities expansion, tourists and fishermen. When the graphic reaches to the year 2000 you already how awful things would get and how critical measures
would need to be made to preserve the little of what were available.
20+ years after that last map (and 40+ of the film) and I won't even bother searching about how the map got worse to the
point of not having any available natural resources of quality there or elsewhere in Brazil or the world. Sure, many reforestation or preservation of natural
ecossystems were made but it's a monumental task to turn back the clock and improve nautral resources but the struggles stays on.
On a downer note, when reality hits people in the face and the pockets, they'll look back at those educational movies and see how perfect everything was yet
not good enough for people to enjoy living and breathing. "It was the worst of times, it was the best of times" as Dickens opens the classical "A Tale of Two Cities",
and thousands of generations will echo the same sentiment except the ones who will live after all nature's gone, it'll be the worst and worst of times. 6/10.
