It's essentially a commentary on how Western society in particular has become de-sensitized to the realities of war. We have economic interests in some shit-hole part of the world? No problem, just send uneducated grunts who have no future anyway.
But the film gets the message across in a clever, accessible way. It features expendable low-level hoodlums who are just trying to get by, and although they're criminals you still feel a degree of empathy for them since they seem to have no other options in their pathetic lives.
Having said all that, it's easy to point the finger at governments and take the moral high ground. We're all equally guilty because all of us benefit from said economic interests, so we too have blood on our hands. And speaking of blood, there's also a parallel to that delicious rare steak you consumed over the weekend.
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Thanks to Meat Processing Inc., chicken, turkey, fish and beef magically appear in our pristine supermarkets. We conveniently forget about the horror often experienced by these creatures as they shuffled off this mortal coil and directly onto our forks. So you see, we are all killing them softly.
But it's simply a characteristic of where we are in the food chain. Your wife sees a spider on the wall, you're dispatched to kill it. Personally, I will always make an attempt to release any sort of creature into the wild, provided of course it requires nominal effort. And even then, the chances that this insect survives in it's explosively new environment are slim, but at least I'm giving it a fair shot.
So next time you're at the gourmet burger shop and order a ground up cow topped with a double helping of hacked up pig, at least pause and have a little bit of appreciation. In the billions of years since the universe began, things have aligned themselves just so you could shove that greasy burger down your neck.
It easily could have been the other way around.
I agree that we should all think more about where this meat comes from. Far too often we just down the burger and throw away the leftovers without appreciating that an animal died so we could eat it. I highly recommend buying some ground beef from a butcher shop, taking it home, massaging it, having a glass of wine with it, and then have dirty dirty sex with it. But focus on ITS needs for once.
ReplyDeleteAgreed Clefto, Meat foreplay is where it's at.
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