The entire documentary takes about an hour and a half and is divided into five sections. Various scenarios of animals falling into human hands are recorded, including pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and experiments. Before watching this film, I happened to watch the film "Schindler's List" about the Holocaust, so every time I see humans throwing chickens from the conveyor belt like transporting goods, and hanging beef cattle with so-called standardization The hygienic standards of the people were rinsed and disinfected, and then the throat was cut and bloodletted. The scene of the German officers driving the Jews to the square and then focusing on the massacre always came to mind. How similar these suffering animals are to slaughtered Jews. We always shout slogans about equality, freedom, and respect, but before absolute power, human beings and animals are the same, and they are only allowed to be slaughtered.
All beings are never equal.
Mark Twain once said: Humans are the most abominable of God's creatures. Humans clearly know that sentient beings suffer, yet they entertain the suffering of other beings. Hence the entertainment chapter in the documentary, in order to satisfy human desires, many meaningless, worthless, wacky competitions are designed to entertain and make money. Human beings simply ignore the basic needs of animals. In the circus, skilled orc tamers teach newbies who have just started this business, saying that if the animal doesn't obey the instructions, you can beat it with a whip, don't feel bad, you can't do this business . How cruel! That's why the elephant's revenge came in the back. The scarred elephant, knowing that he was using a man's arm as a car, had to slam into the car with his own body. That clip made people feel depressing. Too many animals who were suffering and creatures who were unwilling to be tamed, their helplessness and resentment were all expressed in the elephant that crashed.
This documentary does not use some very flashy or cool way to express any central idea, or skilled techniques to make its own film look more cool. It just took some things that we often see but ignore in life, such as stray dogs and circuses, processing factories and zoos, and then classified these contents into these things we saw. But that doesn't mean the filming of this documentary was easy. We can see that when the beef cattle in the factory were being cut for meat and the animals were being tamed in the circus, it was obviously candid, which shows that the photographer also took a lot of risks at that time. Great works are always supported by extraordinary things. The photographers of "All Beings on Earth" risked their lives to show us such a real work. I think if these scenes are singled out, the people who see them will only sigh, ah, so cruel, what's more, maybe they are indifferent. But the director spent an hour and a half to gather everyone's affairs together, which was very shocking.
Yes, shock. I use words like this to describe it.
I used to use this word only when watching animal world documentaries on underwater creatures. Because it is a world we do not understand, full of curiosity and mystery. But as Chai Jing said, reality has a powerful force. I say that "All Beings on Earth" is shocking because it is too real. The director unceremoniously tore off the veil of the warmth we treat animals, revealing the bloody nature inside, so the title of the film is marked with the words "This film is not suitable for children, minors need to be accompanied by their parents to watch".
Many times, reason tells us that the natural selection for survival of the fittest is correct, it is the result of natural selection. But it cannot be accepted emotionally, because nature is the most cruel, it creates life in the most meaningful way and dies in the most meaningless way. I think that the reason why humans are superior to other creatures should not only be because of our superior intelligence, but also because we are more merciful and respectful than other creatures.
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