The End Scene


I thought the end Montage scene was excellent. The bulldozer knocks down the tree, disturbing the bats' habitat. The bat flies off, takes fruit from a banana plant. Makes a new roost above a pig farm, drops a piece of contaminated fruit that the pig eats. The pig is bought for a restaurant. The chef starts to prepare the pig when he is informed the customer (Beth Emhoff) wants a photo with him. Hand contact is made and the inter-title comes up Day 1. So who is to blame? Mankind's greed for destroying the tree?

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A lot of people are blaming the chef, saying that he should have washed his hands. Maybe he should, as a courtesy to the customer who wanted to meet him. The important thing - when it comes to food hygiene - is that he washed his hands *after* he had shaken hands with the customer. We don't see him after the picture is taken so we have no reason to assume he didn't wash his hands. No blame on the chef, for all we know he followed the hygiene requirements for his profession.


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It does bring up some interesting questions, and my instructor (who made us watch this in medical class recently) claimed it was all karma, because that bulldozer belonged to the deforestation company the blond woman worked for, and the series of events that followed was like the universe punishing her, but also making 26 million other humans pay for the greed of her company.

I would also like to point out that it was an ugly stereotype to show a professional cook working in a high-class casino, in a city, wiping his pork-slimed hands on his already dirty apron, like a common street vendor after handling a raw, dead pig. No cook in a professional setting like that would be so disgusting and lazy. China is famous for having very well-trained cooks when it comes to high-class cuisine, and to have him act so carelessly in the film is insulting towards China's best cooks. Not everyone in China cooks like an uneducated, dirty, street butcher.

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>> No cook in a professional setting like that would be so disgusting and lazy.

Talk to the health department about that. When Trump became President I remember these being articles about Marelago's health department certification. His answer is to put incompetents in charge of the department and defund the agency to balance the budget while he gives 1.5 trillion in tax breaks to billionaires.

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Mankind's greed sure didn't help matters any. That's for sure!!!

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Carnivorism is to blame. Stop eating disease carrying animals, ffs!

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Carnivores have lived on this planet for millions of years, so it's obviously sustainable.

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The chef first for not wishing his hands, and Beth Emhoff for being a Çûnting WHØRĘ

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