I wasn't sure where to put this thread, so hopefully this is a good place.
About two weeks ago I saw Bong Joon-ho's new movie "Mickey 17". I was generally unimpressed with it, as I found it very derivative from two sources - the film "Moon" and the "Star Trek" (original series) episode "The Devil in the Dark". I did some reading about the film, and most reviewers found the plot to be an allegory for colonialism (mild spoiler: Humans from Earth come to colonize a "deserted" planet that actually contains another life form, similar to animals). Perhaps because I see through a vegan lens, I thought it was an allegory for the way humans treat animals. Devaluing them because they are different and have limited ability to communicate with us. (less mild spoiler: The leader of the colonizing group plans a genocidal attack against all the indigenous creatures) Wanting to see if others had my point of view, I Googled "Bong Joon-ho" and "veganism", and got a zillion returns, almost all related instead to the film "Okja", which I had never seen or even heard of.
That sent me to Netflix, where "Okja" is streaming (probably all over the world, since the film was financed by Netflix).
I found "Okja" at times very touching and other times bombastic and terribly overacted (particularly the lead villains). Doing some further reading, it's encouraging that this film has led many people to at least try or to contemplate becoming vegans. On the negative side, it's a bit distressing to read that the film's director became a vegan "temporarily" while making the film after becoming familiar with the inner workings of slaughterhouses (a sizable portion of the film takes place in a slaughterhouse with explicit, but CGI'd, slaughter footage). I guess since 2017 he just blocks that information out of his mind when he eats animals.
Anyway, thanks for reading my long post, and ... thoughts?
About two weeks ago I saw Bong Joon-ho's new movie "Mickey 17". I was generally unimpressed with it, as I found it very derivative from two sources - the film "Moon" and the "Star Trek" (original series) episode "The Devil in the Dark". I did some reading about the film, and most reviewers found the plot to be an allegory for colonialism (mild spoiler: Humans from Earth come to colonize a "deserted" planet that actually contains another life form, similar to animals). Perhaps because I see through a vegan lens, I thought it was an allegory for the way humans treat animals. Devaluing them because they are different and have limited ability to communicate with us. (less mild spoiler: The leader of the colonizing group plans a genocidal attack against all the indigenous creatures) Wanting to see if others had my point of view, I Googled "Bong Joon-ho" and "veganism", and got a zillion returns, almost all related instead to the film "Okja", which I had never seen or even heard of.
That sent me to Netflix, where "Okja" is streaming (probably all over the world, since the film was financed by Netflix).
I found "Okja" at times very touching and other times bombastic and terribly overacted (particularly the lead villains). Doing some further reading, it's encouraging that this film has led many people to at least try or to contemplate becoming vegans. On the negative side, it's a bit distressing to read that the film's director became a vegan "temporarily" while making the film after becoming familiar with the inner workings of slaughterhouses (a sizable portion of the film takes place in a slaughterhouse with explicit, but CGI'd, slaughter footage). I guess since 2017 he just blocks that information out of his mind when he eats animals.
Anyway, thanks for reading my long post, and ... thoughts?
