After reading the entire docuseries these two days, it further confirmed my previous thoughts. Like everyone, I think Joe is very stupid and naive. To a large extent, he was framed and imprisoned by people around him. In the end, except for the manager, everyone testify against him. But this does not mean that we can romanticize him. He takes a gun every day. The intimidation of Carole is true. It is true that he killed tigers. Even at the end of the film, he said that he felt that the orangutans trapped by him for more than ten years were miserable, but he continued to let them stay in cages for profit. However, everyone seems to have gotten the point wrong. Because the others stabbed the knife nine inches, Joe only stabbed five inches, so it is illogical to say that Joe is a good person. This is why I think the narrative of the movie is too partial to Joe. Foreign netizens also voted for Joe and asked Trump to pardon him. I was also drunk.
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This is not so much a documentary about big cats, as it is a documentary about the private lives of the tigers. I believe that I, like many people, have a curious mentality to see how crazy these people who raise tigers are.
Turns out, they are crazier than we thought.
Joe Exotic is openly gay and has two husbands. He hates Carole and the Animal Protection Association very much. One day he will use a dummy as Carole to shoot and explode. He also said that if someone from the Animal Protection Association shoots or snatches his tiger, he will turn this place into Waco ( A confrontation between a cult organization and the government ended in a tragedy in which more than 80 people died). His employees rested in a row of mobile homes, which were full of cockroaches and rats, the faucet was empty, and only one air conditioner was available. His employees said that they were all misfits, but one of the reasons Joe took them in was that they had just been released from prison and had nowhere to go. They had no choice but to rely on him, so they were able to exploit them constantly at work.
Doc (of mystical science, wikipedia says it is a Chinese medicine lol) There is a group of "wives" and employees who let the girls go to breast augmentation without asking for advice, and they only earn 100 yuan from working non-stop a week.
Carole is a so-called animal protector, but her zoo also collects money, and her employees are all graded volunteers. Her clothes and home furnishings are all the same leopard print. Following the interview with Joe, the director discovered that she was unaccountably related to the disappearance of the third ex-husband Don, and the people around Don also confirmed the idea that Carole killed him in order to inherit Don’s millions of fortunes. And take him to feed the tiger.
Now I’ve only seen the fourth episode. There are so many personal grievances of these people in the film. I just want to say that people who seem to be on the side of justice are actually doing the same dirty work, just fighting. The banner of protecting animals deceived everyone.
But I don't think these are enough to explain the relationship between Joe, Carole and animals. If you want to prove that Carole is also cruelty to animals and keep them in the iron net, why not explain that Carole's iron net to shut a tiger is bigger than Joe's? Is it about the same size? How do they take care of the tiger the same or different, how do they spend the night from getting up? If Doc has never killed a tiger as he said, will the director team be stationed there for a month or two to find out? If there are any shots they don't allow to shoot, does the broadcast of these clips prove that they are hiding something in a certain link.
From my personal point of view, I just think that if you want to say that they are only for the benefits of raising animals, regardless of the animals themselves, this bunch of private life matters are not the point, but they can only be regarded as people based on these aspects to understand the moral level. Go up to judge and guess what these people have done to animal cruelty and killing. Many first-hand clues, whether it was not interviewed or broadcast, the audience could not receive it.
If this is the case, what is the difference between Netflix and these tiger-raisers? The background is that these tiger-raisers don’t protect animals, but the whole film focuses on the exotic life of these people, and how they treat tigers. Rarely mentioned. These Rednecks are estimated to be quite a few in the Midwest (look at those who oppose gun control, one or two protesting with a few guns), and these people are used as selling points in documentaries because of raising tigers.
If I really talk about the lives of these tiger breeders and those living in conservative states, I would like to see the description of the life trajectories and changes of these protagonists, and I would be even more curious about how his life has become distorted step by step. For example, the family background in the first episode. Joe's parents are homophobia. When he came out, his parents couldn't accept it and he wanted to commit suicide. Wikipedia also said that he had already served as a chief officer in the police station. With these family contexts, the audience will know that he likes guns and tigers because he wants to get closer to the mainstream of masculinity.
I found a good article on guardinan: Hunting, meth and big cats: Tiger King's rarely seen version of southern queerness
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