SabbraCadabra wrote:
dragonsanddemons wrote:
I forgot, I had to watch Food Inc. for one of my classes in high school, and I found that highly disturbing. That's a significant part of why I'm vegetarian now.
I haven't seen that one, but it sounds similar. Fast Food Nation is filmed in a documentary style, but it's all fictionalized, with Hollywood actors and a fast food franchise called "Mickey's". I think I must've gone a week without eating any beef after that (although I've never liked beef that much anyway).
Food Inc. is a documentary on food production. What really disturbed me is that they showed exactly how food animals are treated before they're killed, and I refuse to support that. I might be okay with eating meat from animals that haven't been raised in factory farms, but I figured it would be easier to not eat meat than to make sure all the meat I eat is from animals that have been humanely raised, since I don't do the shopping.
SabbraCadabra wrote:
dragonsanddemons wrote:
Hmm, I think The Human Centipede is still on Netflix, so I guess I could give it a try. I can always stop it if I don't like it.
Talking with friends, I know most people get grossed out at the "feed her!" scene. But if you listen to the Doctor explaining the procedure...I won't go into too much detail here, but he says that the intestines are connected directly to the next esophagus, so it's not
quite as gross as people imagine it to be.
Ah, OK. You're right, that's not
quite as gross. It'll probably help that I'm expecting it, too.
SabbraCadabra wrote:
dragonsanddemons wrote:
I don't like watching anything involving intense sexual stuff, is why I won't watch A Serbian Film or Salo.
You wouldn't like the second Human Centipede, then =) The main character is constantly sexually abused, and so he takes it out on himself and on others. The Netflix version censors some of it, but it's still quite graphic.
I guess I can add that to the reasons I'm not going to go past the first one, then.
SabbraCadabra wrote:
dragonsanddemons wrote:
I might watch Cannibal Holocaust if there's a version without the animal stuff, but I don't want to give any money that might support that kind of treatment of animals by buying the DVD.
Yeah, I think I would rather just not watch it. Seems like the only reason I would is for bragging rights, and I'm okay there.
I kind of want to see how I'd handle something that intensely violent and graphic, but
definitely not badly enough that I'll support animal cruelty to do it.
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Yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage. For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Outsider"