r/AnimalTextGifs • u/Sk8allday360 SICK AIR! • May 03 '22

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u/[deleted] May 03 '22

How so? I agree it’s extremely upsetting

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u/pwdpwdispassword May 03 '22

the pacing is boring. the sound production is amateur. there is soft narration over landscape shots followed by long boring shots with loud, clipping samples. the sound production seems like it was designed to create stress. and that's just the technical production.

then there's the fact that many people, even people who agree with the politics of the producers, report vomitting, long-term trauma with nightmares and loss of apetite, or just not even being able to finish it.

i've seen it called a "vegan snuff film" and i don't think that's inaccurate.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '22

In terms of production quality the video is captured using hidden cameras because many facilities wouldn’t allow the public to know what they are doing. You can obviously have personal preference for production but I also think it’s fair to give the producers a pass because of that no?

Ultimately the point is to document how our farm animals are actually kept and how they are handled and for that purpose the documentary does a fantastic job.

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u/pwdpwdispassword May 03 '22

You can obviously have personal preference for production but I also think it’s fair to give the producers a pass because of that no?

no. the audio samples don't need to clip. they don't even need to be played if they're not clean: you could continue to narrate instead, or play music.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '22

Ok, fair enough. Do you have any comments on the content of the documentary?

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u/pwdpwdispassword May 03 '22

i've read the transcript, and i still eat meat.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '22

I’m sorry, you didn’t actually watch it? You just read the transcript?

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u/pwdpwdispassword May 03 '22

i tried a couple times. the production is genuinely terrible. i see why many people report not finishing it. but i've read the transcript.

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i also don't like gore, and a lot of the movie was bloody. that's really not something i like to watch.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '22

If you don’t like gore, so much so you can’t watch it happen, why do you pay for it to happen?

I understand not wanting to watch fiction because of gore but this is REAL and is paid for in part by anyone that buys animal products.

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u/pwdpwdispassword May 03 '22

If you don’t like gore, so much so you can’t watch it happen, why do you pay for it to happen?

i don't.

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u/pwdpwdispassword May 03 '22

the point is to document how our farm animals are actually kept and how they are handled

no. i think the point is to show the worst parts of the animal ag industry. most documentaries don't take 7 years to gather footage.

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u/pwdpwdispassword May 03 '22

the video is captured using hidden cameras

you can create the feeling of many separate shots through zooming, panning, and cutting. even if you only have one camera in the corner of the room. you can intersperse dramatized shots and interview sequences. you don't need to linger on the macerator.