:03:01
To bend down is not to beg
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But when I see them sway
My heart hurts!
:03:06
Eating that scrap-crap
:03:09
They've got to live on shit-bits
:03:11
They've got to frisk for tidbits
:03:14
Left on the street, leftovers
:03:17
Rough stuff with no owners
:03:19
Picking up trash like
the streetsweeper
:03:22
Zero for us, for them much better
:03:25
They got to roam around
to kill the hunger
:03:28
It's always been the same pain
will always be the same game.
:03:37
In the towns today
as in the fields yesterday
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gleaners still humbly stoop
to glean.
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But men have now joined
with women
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in gleaning.
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What strikes me is
that each gleans on his own.
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Whereas in paintings
:03:57
they were always
in clusters, rarely alone.
:04:01
But there's a famous one
:04:04
painted byJules Breton
at the museum in Arras.
:04:09
We took the road north.
:04:11
Lots of big trucks,
but I'll come back to that,
:04:15
and we arrived in the town of Arras,
:04:18
we saw its square,
:04:19
we saw its museum,
:04:21
and Breton's Woman Gleaning.
:04:24
There is another woman gleaning
in this film, that's me.
:04:35
I'm happy to drop the ears of wheat
and pick up my camera.
:04:40
These new small cameras,
:04:42
they are digital, fantastic.
:04:44
Their effects are stroboscopic
:04:47
narcissistic,
:04:49
and even hyper-realistic.