7 years ago

@hwlr - Nailed it. (and here's some more words to satisfy the post police.)

7 years ago

@hwlr Seriously. This movie answers the question that no one asked: What if a corporation wanted to slaughter Totoro?

7 years ago

@faithful - I was doing alright until [spoiler]the breeding pair pushes their piglet through the fence at the slaughterhouse to be rescued.[/spoiler] Queue the waterworks.

7 years ago

@buddhalou I feel your pain!

7 years ago

@wallflowers it's portraying the real world and you're mad at that? I thought it was one of the best movies I've seen because it was so real!

7 years ago

@lsand3 Sorry I somehow missed this. I don't agree it's portraying the "real world" but rather an vast exaggeration to pull on certain strings to the point its too blatant with it's message.

7 years ago

@unconcerned thank you! I was searching (and hoping) for a comment like this. My thoughts exactly - started out as a good experience, then quickly became an overexaggerated disappointment, a forced propaganda. And this is coming from a huge animal lover, so...

6 years ago

@unconcerned This is exactly how it goes everyday in the world. Meat eaters are disgusting and heartless.<br />

6 years ago

@sopherian I mean you're free to hold that opinion. I do believe animal treatment could be improved in the slaughter industry, but generalizations and mass judgement is pointless. The main point I was making in my post is that the movie had conflicting tones and the sentiments they were trying to portray were ham fisted and detrimental to the message as a whole. If you're okay with the tone shift and the message they are vehemently pushing then I am sure you enjoyed the movie more than I could and that's completely fine.

6 years ago

@unconcerned there is no humane slaughter. You can be perfectly healthy without meat. Vegans are even living up to 10 years longer! That makes eating animals a choice. And killing just for taste is heartless and cruel. For me personally it's always hard to watch these things. But it's necessary and an important message to be spread.

6 years ago

@sophiaso Do you eat meat?

6 years ago

@sopherian Well there are ways to raise animals in which they are not tortured, feel pain, or treated like inventory. I think that's the most you can ask of people in our culture realistically. Not going to get into any health studies but I am all for people spreading the vegan lifestyle if done politely. Maybe sooner than later we will get ethically sourced cheaper lab grown meat that can cut the practice of slaughter to an almost inexistent amount. <br /> <br /> To your other question yes I do, I eat meat two to three times a week. I cut back a few years ago for environmental reasons rather than for moral (cruelty) reasons. I also source my meat locally and know how the animals are treated, even do some hunting. I think there is always room for compromise rather than the idea of reforming a cultural and historic practice. Though I agree a film preaching about cruel practices is great, I just feel it could have been more balanced and not a jarring of a turn like in this movie.

4 years ago

@unconcerned I do agree this movie was over-the-top. That said, I think the message should read (whether or not it was intended to or not) as anti-corporate, which I wholly agree with. This 'there is no humane slaughter' crap is an eyeroll. Put me in a comfortable environment, treat me well, and kill me quickly and painlessly, and you can have my meat! That sounds like a wonderful life!<br /> <br /> The problem with meat is the cruelty, which absolutely there in the industry, it's fucking awful and we should do something about it. But when the movie presented me with the idea of a environmentally sound source of meat that was going to live under good circumstances before being turned into food, I was totally down with that premise. The problem lies in the cruelty, the seedy underbelly, the corporate bullshit. That's the real villainy of this movie, and I wish that the movie had spoken to that, instead the oversimplification of 'meat bad'.

4 years ago

@unconcerned exaggerated? Have you never seen what goes on in slaughterhouses? It's exaggerated alright. Okja was treated too kindly!