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"The Pope's Toilet" Flushes Potty Humour

The Pope's Toilet is a film about a family's story. Beto’s family, consisting of his wife Carmen and their daughter Silvia, live in an impoverished little village on the Uruguayan-Brazilian border. A small time smuggler who literally peddles his wares over the border, before peddling them off to shop keepers in his village, Beto is a metaphor for the impoverished working man. Set in 1988, just before the scheduled visit of Pope John Paul II, Beto and his neighbours decide they will capitalize on this apparent miracle. The town residents sinks their savings, and take out loans to invest in business ventures capitalizing off the expected crowds. Beto decides he will build the only toilet in town and charge visitors for "full or half-serve" stops on his homemade head. The end result of the movie was a good hard shot aimed at the social injustices, inequities and corruption the average hard working, semi-honest working man (depending on how far he can afford to bend his morals) faces in his daily grind of eking out an existence in his unfortunate impoverished life. In the end the lesson is love thy neighbour, because in the end that's all you've got.

Posted on 09/13/07 by: Jason 02:44 AM