i really want to see this movie but i'm curious (as a cat-lover) as to how awful the violence depicted towards them is. i will probably end up seeing the movie regardless, i was just wondering.
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I sympathize with you because I'm the biggest animal lover I know (won't eat a steak and can't kill a bug), and this is one of my favorite movies. That said, there's one scene of a cat getting drowned (which is disturbing, but the underwater growling borders on humorous), and a couple other scenes of kids abusing already-dead cats. The scenes aren't long by any means, and just remember that they aren't real cats; it shouldn't bother you too much.
shareThe biggest white trash you will ever see in your life doing this to cats..
-drowning a cat in a barrel of water
-talking about setting them on fire
-shooting them with bb guns
-collecting them in trash bags to sell for money so they can use to prostitute/rape a mentally challenged girl
-hanging a cat up by its tail and slashing it with whip like sticks until it
's dead and blood and entrails start falling out of its mouth
-cat killing quotas
-talking about drowning kittens
-poisoning
-putting glass inside tuna
-shooting a cat dead then stepping on the head and then holding it up and running up to the camera with it.
messed up.
Here is the American Humane Association's summary of their monitoring during the making of the film, which explains how many of the shots were filmed and the involvement of real animals:
http://www.americanhumanefilmtv.org/archives/movies/mr.php?fid=6146
Wow cool.
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Actually, the American Humane Association hasn't done a good job in the past few years. I wouldn't trust their approval rating of animal handling anymore and it's possible they never did do such a good job.
https://eluxemagazine.com/culture/articles/animal-abuse-in-films/
i turned it off in the first few minutes, as soon as i saw a kid carrying a cat by just the scruff of its neck--it was aggravated. and the cat looked real to me, unless this independent film had a budget for some of the best animatronics i've ever seen. it may or may not be a great film--i'll never know, as i just can't stand things like that done to animals, real or otherwise.
shareHopefully you saw the post above you by the human society saying it was just the actor moving his wrists to give the illusion of agitation.
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In this film's defense (barely), there are no scenes of live cats being tortured or killed. It only happens to their carcasses. Not that this justifies anything.
shareThis is my favorite movie of all-time, but to be honest, the first time around almost made lose my *beep* especially the opening cat drowning scene. For a movie with an indie budget, it's pretty heavy, I can't help but thinking it's real. You get use to it after your conscious starts to form callouses.
shareNone of the violence in this movie is real. None towards animals, anyways. When he puts the cat in the water, you never see the live animal go in. He puts it in an empty barrel, then the footage cuts. The carcasses being shot or hit are fake. Almost all of the talk of hunting cats, or poisoning them, or putting glass in tuna, is just that; talk. I'd heard horrible things about the violence in this, and it was thankfully not too bad. And don't go saying I hate cats or something, I'm a guy, but when my cat died I'm not ashamed to say I cried. And personally, I loved the movie. It reminded me of the town where I grew up kind of. I didn't feel sad or angry, just a sense of nostalgia almost. I don't see the movie as sad in the least. All of the characters, while not estatic about their lives, are content, summed up best I think by the three sisters. You see it, and think that's horrible, and it's jarring, but I've lived in dirty houses, my best friend growing up had a house full of bugs, and when it's your life you're used to it, and it's not so bad. So it wasn't so horrible to me. But that's just what I think. And the animal violence is only graphic to the dead cats, and then for only about six seconds, maybe, the entire movie. You shouldn't let that stop you.
share Have to disagree while the cat is not visibly drowned the poor beast is being handled in a very harsh way and quite frankly it just ruined the film for me. The film offers little to make it worth watching IMO just a bleak portrayal of a bunch of messed up small town folks and is mostly dull/
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Nothing remotely implies that he is a Christian.
I assume you say this solely because
1. you dislike his post
2. you dislike Christians because you're an atheist
so you group the two together.
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Thank you OP for asking the question, and thanks to those who answer it.
Now I know this movie is not for me.
It is weird how I can deal with real-life images of violence amongst human adults, I can watch them kill each other, and I don't care. But I can't stand animals suffering, even if it's fake.
Of course I can't stand violence against children, eldery and disabled persons.
I would probably kill slowly anyone who'll hurt my cats.
Please excuse my terrible redaction, english is not my native language.