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I was also appalled that animals were tortured in this way, and I don't care what the symbolism is. There is never an excuse for this behavior. The end.

to another poster who mentioned that fish are killed for food every day: eating is a necessity for human beings survival (not that we need to eat animal flesh to stay alive, but billions do).

Treating any animal inhumanely is never ok even if you are going to eat it. Torturing, even for a movie, is cruelty - the end.

Children who torture and kill animals for fun become adults who kill other people and spend the rest of their lives in jail, if
they are not executed before.

So think carefully about what you defend, dismiss, or laugh off.

LOL I guess no one on this thread has seen cannibal holocaust.

"Need, that's a bigger word than love"

At least movie thought us to treat animal better.

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When cruelty to animals is shown in films, normally it only looks as though but no animals are harmed/abused.

But the scenes with the stone and cord are obviously real. I found it abominable they dared to abuse the animals like this and film it.

I didn't approve of the scenes with the cords, but it didn't ruin the movie for me, and at least it served a powerful anti-cruelty message in the following scene, which I rather admired.

The final scene with the stones pissed me off though – it seemed much more cruel than the cords, and it was totally redundant; I get that they're trying to show cyclicity, but there must have been another way to do that – the father wasn't observing this time and there was no lesson, so... to me it just showed that Ki Duk Kim didn't absorb the lesson he wrote into his own movie!

It's a shame because this is an unbelievably visionary, wondrous movie that I want to recommend unconditionally, but that last scene did leave a bad taste in my mouth.


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