Blow
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ON BLACK:
“A MAN MUST LOOK AT HIS LIFE AND THINK LUXURY.”
FADE IN:
EXT. GUARJIRA, COLOMBIA – 1989 – DAY
A majestic panorama of the lush green slopes that are the
Columbian highlands. A faint chopping sound IS HEARD and
then another. WHOOSH. WHOOSH. The view changes and tiny
dots appear on the hillside vegetation. WHOOSH.
CLOSER
We realize the dots are people. Workers swinging long steel
machetes in slow methodical rhythm. WHOOSH. WHOOSH. WE SEE
the South American Indian MEN clearly now. Their tar stained
teeth. Their gaunt faces riddled with crow’s feet. Their
jaws chewing away on huge wads of coca leaves as they collect
the harvest.
EXT. DIRT ROAD – COLOMBIA – DAY
Old rickety trucks carrying the huge green tractor-sized
bales speed along the narrow road.
EXT. CLEARING – COLOMBIA – DAY
The bundles are undone and Columbian women separate out the
leaves. Tribes of underweight workers carry armload after
armload of the harvest and ritualistically dump them into a
gigantic cannibal pot which sits on top of a raging bonfire.