I remember that when I was locked down last year, I received a crazy recommendation from the global boss at the time. I still felt that "looking at such a wild poster, what a ghost TV series can be filmed". To review:
1) Misunderstood before, this film is actually the hottest documentary ever, not a TV series. I don’t know how to get all the footage and the team behind it, but I really think this selection is wonderful, and it’s amazing to get these materials. Although the reality show producer Rick hired by Tiger King Joe Exotic, who showed his face in the documentary, was difficult to produce, he still has a unique eye because he discovered the subject and the character of Joe.
2) There is no difference between a private zoo and an animal rescuer sanctuary. The fierce struggle between the two parties is only based on their respective ego. As Saff said, "The end of this struggle is that no animal is helped in the end."
3) What kind of person is Joe Exotic? He likes "young and dumb" young boy, a red-necked peasant gay in the conservative Red State. He had a great love for tigers, but this love deteriorated after he enjoyed the huge benefits of running a private zoo. He shot and killed a healthy young tiger because the area of the park was not enough. He wanted to hire the woman who was against the animal protection organization to kill him. He is extremely narcissistic and arrogant. He runs for president and governor, and prints his portrait on condoms as a means of building momentum. His biggest wish is to be popular all over the world and full of expressive desire in front of the camera. He was so innocent and stupid that he was stabbed in the back by a business partner and was sent to a federal court for 22 years. Everyone said that he could not stand the long life of imprisonment and would die in prison. And when he lost everything, the popularity he longed for day and night became popular all over the world, ironically realized through a documentary about him. By the time of the final trial, no one was on his side in the court, and his ex-husband and business partners became witnesses against him in court. After telling this thrilling story, only one small person still remembers. In fact, the other side of Joe is that he has insisted on cooking more than 150 homeless or intractable people for Thanksgiving for nearly 10 years.
4) The question often asked by Joel McHale in the last episode: Do you think the animals in the zoo are more terrible or the people? Everyone, even Saff whose hand was bitten by a tiger and Reinke whose leg was bitten, said: People are more terrifying. Animals will not deceive or betray like people.
5) The game between the owner of this private zoo and the animal protection organization, and the story of this small circle of giant cat lovers, so irrelevant, wild, exotic and chaotic, is really the same as the subtitle says, it’s murder, Mayhem, and madness, yet so addictive, fascinating and weirdly relevant, I never thought of it before, I don’t know why it reminds me of Breaking Bad.
6) You think you are the king of tigers, you can be above the secular laws, take drugs, shoot guns, raise tigers, be a country singer, marry two husbands, and live a happy life. In the end, you haven’t suffered from too little reading, framed by villains, litigated, and talked about the legal vocabulary that was once the most dismissive, restricted by the rules established by the society, and became the ones you kept in a cage. Animals with dead souls. This is true of Joe Exotic, so is Don Lewis, and so is Dr. Antle. On the contrary, those who follow the rules, use the rules, deceive the rules, and single-mindedly profit for themselves (aka Carole Baskin, James Garretson, Jeff Lowe) have become the winners of this game. There are no good people and bad people in this game, because there are no good people who can influence the direction of the game, but there are indeed winners and losers. People yearn for the retribution of good and evil and the reincarnation of cause and effect. Unfortunately, reality often fails to confirm this belief.
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