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Is there visible animal cruelty in this film?


I hope someone can tell me (without going into too much detail, because I would love to see this film but I just can't watch animal cruelty (animals getting hit, tortured, abused etc when they are still alive) even if it is just a film and maybe not real. So, I hope you won't laugh at me but if you can inform me about this, I'd be really grateful.

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There are some cows being injected with needles. thats about it, and some scenes in a slaughter house, but you will not see live animals being killed.

but still, this film has some shocking scenes with cruel things happening to humans. so if animal cruelty is already to much for you, you will not be able to stumach this film. It's sad that you'll be missing out on this gripping film. this film really grabbed me by the throat and didnt let go for months, truly a worthy cinematic experience...

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>> but still, this film has some shocking scenes with cruel things happening to humans. so if animal cruelty is already to much for you, you will not be able to stumach this film.

or maybe he can.

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It's often much harder for people to stomach animal cruelty in a movie than human cruelty, so I don't think the human cruelty is of much concern. I'm not sure why this is, though it's the same for me. I think it may be because humans understand what's going on, whereas animals don't, so we see them as more innocent and helpless.

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I'm the same, I just can not stomach any cruelty towards children or animals, even if fictional.

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No cruelty towards children? Have you not watched the movie?

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I really don't understand this no cruelty to animal mentality. Obviously if an animal was killed they would put a fake animal. Just like when a human is getting killed it's special effects or a dummy.

Filmmaking has too many boundaries not cross, let alone try do it for real. Insurance companies can even shut the film down if something like that was ever done. It's morally unethical.

So obviously no life in modern films get hurt.

But I will say Oldboy used three live small octopuses and was eaten alive on screen. But that's because it is a delicacy in korea, and those animals were going to be killed in the restaurant anyway.

And cannibal holocoust is another excemption. lol

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No cruelty towards children? You didn't watch this movie then.

For the OP, if you are worried about animal cruelty, you can relax. Instead of that, it's humans (especially a little kid) that have to undergo the cruelty.

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not in this movie. but don't watch Water for Elephants!

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And also I believe Bambi's mother came to a very violent end.

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Of course there's animal cruelty. All cows raised for meat or dairy are terribly abused. They probably just ignore it in this movie. I won't be seeing it for that reason.

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LOL, real life is dark as well, do you watch it much?

This film has almost 0 violence towards animals (other than humans).
The most graphic thing will be what I believe to be a cesarean section on a cow and it only lasts like probably 10-15 seconds and I think that we see at some point cows getting injected with hormones even though they don't focus that much, so I don't even remember much about it.

Now, about human violence there a few scenes that are not softcore, hence the 16+ rating.

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there is a human being cruelly and horribly mutilated.

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There is a scene of a cow giving birth by Cesarean and then the calf is placed into a dirty wheel barrow. I don't think that quite qualifies as animal cruelty although it isn't very pleasant to see either.

This is a pretty brutal film which I enjoyed but I wanted to mention that this scene exists in case anyone wanted to avoid it.

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^Why was the calf put into the wheelbarrow? Was it taken away from its mother? I didn't understand this scene at all.

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I don't know why the calf was placed into the wheelbarrow. I didn't understand the point of the scene either.

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^Someone in another thread here explained it well.

When the cow is raised on steroids, she then produces a calf that is too big for a regular delivery. She can't push it out so a C-section is required. The calf is then placed in the wheelbarrow since it cannot support its own weight.

How the calf then feeds from the mother is unexplained.

It's horribly cruel what man does to animals.

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It's horribly cruel what man does to animals.

I agree

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Film can do all types of things. If human torture and visible human cruelty is troublesome to you, you may have a big problem with a lot of movies out today. They may need to run that ad in the beginning of every movie. No animals or humans were harmed in the filming of this movie. Animals will only be slaughtered at the slaughterhouse after filming has finished. Humans, they are on their own. Good luck to all.

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