EARTHLINGS
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Movie Reviews of EARTHLINGS
Movie Review: Shakes a sense of actual reality into your system.
Summary: 5 Stars
Most of us go about our days with full understanding that animals are food, clothing, and lesser beings. However, regardless of your stance on animal rights, this film really comes as a shock to the system. Everything down to the title and setup of the film is a confrontation of our initial thoughts that yes, we are all creatures of the same Earth, so how and why do we do this to other inhabitants of our planet? It really does something to your psyche and makes you second guess what you're doing.
As someone that was a vegan before I watched the film, it made me start to consider more drastic action to bring this to an end, yet it was still preaching to the choir. However, my friend, on the other hand, was a full blown omnivore with no thought of what he consumed. He was completely overweight and just doing as he pleased with no concern for animals. He knew that he liked hamburgers and wearing leather jackets. He saw this film and has since gone vegan and lost a lot of weight. He volunteers at animal sanctuaries and protests for animal rights. If that doesn't say something about the power of this film, I don't know what does.
This is a powerful film, and even if you're stuck in your ways, watch it and confirm that you're alright with supporting this before you buy your next big mac. This is reality, and ignoring it doesn't make this reality any easier for those that suffer this reality.
Movie Review: A mix of the highest and lowest sentiments of man
Summary: 5 Stars
The movie starts with a warning for those with weak stomachs about disturbing graphic images. This is not an idle caution, at least 60 minutes of this 95 minute film would be enough to ruin anyones lunch. The film is broken into five subject sections above and beyond the intro and recap: Pets, Food, Clothing, Entertainment, Science. If you are too tenderhearted to see the gore or want to show this film to children, try watching the first and last 15 minutes of the film.
Philosophically the message of the movie mimics a quote from "The Outermost House" by Henry Beston who wrote, "We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creatures through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth."
Movie Review: "The ultimate consciousness expanding movie"
Summary: 5 Stars
If I had to name one movie that I want everyone to see, including my family, friends and yoga students, it would be EARTHLINGS. Then they would understand why I am so adamant that human beings must speak out on behalf of animals.
I saw EARTHLINGS several months ago with a friend. We are both animal advocates and have seen footage of slaughterhouses, fur farms, and other atrocities in other documentaries. We thought we were mentally prepared to see this film. We were not. We both wept and had to take periodic breaks. After I saw EARTHLINGS I ordered several copies and gave them to anyone willing to watch.
Although much of the movie is difficult to watch, there are many uplifting parts, especially at the beginning and end. I consider EARTHLINGS the ultimate consciousness expanding movie.
EARTHLINGS is a masterpiece. If enlightenment begins with disillusionment, I guarantee you will be well on your way after you see EARTHLINGS!
I highly recommend purchasing this DVD and donating a copy to your local library after you watch it. You can also preview the film and read the transcript on-line at www.earthlings.com. Make the Connection. Help spread the word. See EARTHLINGS!
-- Suza Francina, Yoga Teacher, Author, The New Yoga for People Over 50 and other books. www.suzafrancina.com
Movie Review: Abysmal, heartbreaking TRUTH.
Summary: 5 Stars
This film isn't a conspiracy theory. It's not some weird, skewed perspective on how animals are treated on a daily and hourly basis. It's a harsh, open-eyed presentation of facts, and the facts are horrifying. Phoenix narrates a broad array of footage detailing homo sapiens appalling mistreatment, torture, and slaughter of animals. The footage is often difficult to watch, and some images will stay with you for a long, long time. This is the first time, for instance, that I have seen footage of a live skinning of a dog in China. Words can't describe my visceral and emotional reaction to this, but it should be seen. As Phoenix says, quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson: "You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
This film offers footage that most people would rather not see, and rather not contemplate. But, as the saying goes, "we must not refuse to see with our eyes what they must endure with their bodies." _Earthings_ presents a straightforward record of our daily, appalling mistreatment, murder, and exploitation of animals--for food, for entertainment, for so-called science, most importantly for MONEY. Everyone who benefits, perhaps unknowingly, from this cruelty should watch it, and judge for themselves.
This should be essential viewing.
Movie Review: No words can describe it
Summary: 5 Stars
Several haunting images will not leave me... maybe for a long time. I watched an animal being skinned alive and stared into the eyes of its living, breathing carcass of inside out skin, its raw flesh surely on fire... I wished upon all that is holy that it wasn't true. How could you, how could anyone be that cruel?
I am not a rabid animal rights activist, and I am a supporter of hunting as long as meat is eaten hy humans in this world, as I believe at least animals killed in the wild were given the opportunity to live their own life...
With that being said... I am on the verge (grappling with myself and my personal love for good tasting meat) of giving up meat products because of the treatment standards being practiced. I have studied some of this at my university before, but I suppose until now it has not really hit home. Bravo for printing these images in my mind, as it is true a picture speaks a thousand words. Maybe it took this long to realize what my personal impact really is.
Would I recommend this movie? Without question! I would show my children, my friends, my enemies and my pets this movie. I have been encouraging any and all to see the movie. If not to change their lives, at least to show them where their meat really comes from, and that there are other ways to end torture.