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Submitted by enpen on Tue, 01/02/2007 - 2:57pm.
 Ignorant Movie Review: Our Daily BreadResponse to title: Okay, biblical allusion to "The Lord's Prayer". Social commentary here we come... Response to curbside poster: Wow. Great and visually loaded poster. A person in a hazmat suit walking a greenhouse row while spraying an apparently hazardous substance over the ground. The spray gun actually looks like a lightsaber to me. So maybe this is a documentary about GMOs? I'm prepared to watch something scathing. Response post-credits: This film bears witness to the mass production methods of our modern food supply. Produced in a manner which renders human dialogue barely audible, the film focuses its audience on the sights and sounds of the machinery, future food and processes while drawing visual analogies between methods of food production and our lives. For two hours I sat in semi-stunned silence as The Jungle modernized before me. People left during scenes (I assume because of perceived brutality) and, until reaching the Brotherhood, I was convinced that the people with children whom I saw in the lobby were absolutely insane. At the Brotherhood OperaGirl mentioned thinking about taking her older child to see the film. Initially, I guffawed. However, after further conversation it struck me that scenes many adults may find disturbing would be primarily educational for kids on account of their lack of calcified social expectations. Still, be aware that animal slaughter is shown. My current line of thought is that we should demand our school system show this film as part of food and nutrition classroom activities. Kids should know what they're inheriting. Outside of children, I think every adult should watch this movie. Regardless of whether or not it affects lifestyle changes, it boarders on socially negligent that we are so culturally ignorant about mass food production methods and I'm extremely glad I saw it. So, are we everything that we eat? Rating: 4.6 out of 5 Oly Stubbies. Film Haiku: Practice makes callous sun flower fields forever. The Dominator. Can be seen: Olympia Film Society 206 5th Ave N Olympia, WA 98501 Tuesday, January 2, 9pm Wednesday, January 3, 6:30pm Thursday, January 4, 9pm
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I am planning on going to
Submitted by OperaGirl on Tue, 01/02/2007 - 4:20pm.I am planning on going to this tonight. I don't think I am going to take Trev even though it's something that he is very much interested in. Maybe after I see it. I am looking forward to seeing it though - I think it will be what I already know and believe but it's good for motivation!
p.s. It was great meeting you last night. If you want - I can just loan you the book that I used to make that mobile. It has a ton of other great stuff to make/do in it as well. Or maybe you and your family can come over sometime and the kids can play and we can have a mobile making party! =)
“Tell me, what is it you plan on doing with your one wild and precious life?” ~ Mary Oliver
understandable
Submitted by enpen on Wed, 01/03/2007 - 12:17am.I look forward to hearing your take on it. It's really a remarkably different take on modern documentary film making, to me.
And I'd love to borrow that book! Then, after we've experimented a bit around here ourselves we'll work toward being able to hang with you...so to speak.
"Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose."
I went and saw it last night
Submitted by OperaGirl on Wed, 01/03/2007 - 10:18am.I went and saw it last night and here are some of my thoughts. First of all, since this obviously wasn't filmed in America I felt like people would get the idea that our food industry isn't *that* bad. What they showed was surreal and awful at times but America is so much worse. Europe is so far ahead of us with regulating what people can do to food, what they feel is safe for people to eat, and what is humane in the meat industry. So I was disappointed because I felt it didn't show what is really going on.
Second, the silence of it killed me. If you are going to make me watch people eating sandwiches for several minutes then please at least put some music in the background.
I'm also glad that I didn't take Trevor. The scene with the chicks in the beginning would have killed him...where they are going through the chutes and conveyor belts. And just how poorly the animals are treated and the conditions they live in. Our chickens live like queens! lol The cow getting the c-section really bothered me as did the scenes with the mother pigs and their babies. We have really bastardized our food and taken this perfectly natural thing and made it into a cold, sterile, upsetting business. Europe doesn't have the demand for meat from fast food companies like we do here and I think that if you compared the two industries you would see a really big difference.
While I am glad it was not like Peta's Meet your Meat or something, I still think that it doesn't give a real accurate vision of what we are eating.
“Tell me, what is it you plan on doing with your one wild and precious life?” ~ Mary Oliver
the European angle
Submitted by enpen on Wed, 01/03/2007 - 3:28pm.Nice response! I went the other way with the European locales and thought it would get people to wonder how similar our own food production methods are, but I fear you're more correct than I. And I enjoyed silently watching somebody eat...especially when they were trying not to laugh. I love watching people try to hold back laughter. I like your take on it, though, as you're coming from a more knowledgeable standpoint than I.
"We have really bastardized our food and taken this perfectly natural thing and made it into a cold, sterile, upsetting business."
Absolutely and well put. That strikes me as a common theme in our western culture (birth, sickness, death and nursing, just to name a few).
"Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose."
Absolutely and well put.
Submitted by OperaGirl on Wed, 01/03/2007 - 5:42pm.Absolutely and well put. That strikes me as a common theme in our western culture (birth, sickness, death and nursing, just to name a few).
So so true.
“Tell me, what is it you plan on doing with your one wild and precious life?” ~ Mary Oliver
sig line
Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Wed, 01/03/2007 - 6:41pm.When Death Comes When death
Submitted by OperaGirl on Wed, 01/03/2007 - 8:06pm.When Death Comes
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
to buy me, and snaps his purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle pox;
when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,
I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering;
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?
And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,
and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,
and each name a comfortable music in the mouth
tending as all music does, toward silence,
and each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth.
When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
“Tell me, what is it you plan on doing with your one wild and precious life?” ~ Mary Oliver
Proselytization
Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Wed, 01/03/2007 - 8:53pm.In the Course of Events
It's all good...I took no
Submitted by OperaGirl on Wed, 01/03/2007 - 9:04pm.It's all good...I took no offense. I just adore Mary Oliver's poetry and the poem I posted says a lot about how I feel about living my life. I was just being sappy. =)
“Tell me, what is it you plan on doing with your one wild and precious life?” ~ Mary Oliver
yeah...
Submitted by enpen on Wed, 01/03/2007 - 11:59pm."I don't want to end up simply having visited this world."
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"Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose."