Refuse to watch it after killing of dog

I don't understand what you mean? There was no reason to kill the dog?

They MUST be starving, or getting close to it. You can see that she doesn't want to kill the dog, you can tell from their awkward attempt at lightening the mood when they're eating that it's not a happy event for them.

Innuit communities in the far north have occasionally been forced to eat eachother in the past, nevermind the (obviously working, not pet) dogs. It's not something they would be happy about (good working dogs are valuable comodities and they'd be crazy to eat one unless it was getting desperate, whether they liked dogs or not) but it is something that may become necessary and the old or the sick may even volunteer or at least give their blessing for their bodies to be used after death to keep others alive. If food becomes scarce in these temperatures then they would have to start eating the dogs before they became too weak themselves to hunt, they wouldn't wait until they were on death's door with starvation.

I thought it was quite a good portrayal of nomadic life in the frozen north - they even showed how the women ate raw seal blubber (the best way to injest enough calories and keep the cold out) while Loki couldn't face it and ate it only after cooking.

I think that was the point of having her killing the dog at the beginning: it emphasised that she was capable of doing anything that she felt was needed. I think it was more shocking for us because, as you have made clear, we do not need to and would never consider killing a dog for food. I thought they were desperate because they would not go near the other settlers to ask or trade for food. If you haven't seen the rest of the film then I should warn you that its pretty unsentimental in its treatment of animals.

Even though they were doing it to survive?

Your self righteousness is ridiculously beyond the pale.

This sort of thing has been done throughout the history of mankind. It's required of survival on occasion in the far north. They clearly took no joy in having to take such an extreme measure, which you might have learned if you had actually bothered to watch the scene immediately after rather than make snap (and wrong) judgments of the characters based on your personal prejudices.

So do you feel proud of yourself now? That you can come here without having bothered to watch the film so that you could exhibit to the rest of us your ignorance of what went on? If you don't care to continue watching it, that's your choice. But to come on here and make false claims about the motives of the characters fueled only by your ignorance and stilted biases is indicative of only your own shortcomings; not anyone else's nor the characters in the film.

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
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Stupid...to say you "deleted" it means you pirated it in the first place.

Would you eat your dog if you were starving? Or would you just die?

I am a Native american and nothing is wrong with "killing a dog". Let me guess; you dont eat meat and grow your own food in a garden of a minumin of 3 acres;that takes about 5-7 months to harvest. you dont use power tools. I bet that you feed your pets green grass and keep them from killing to survive. i have butchered cattle, sheep, goats, fish, even a horse... and farmed an area of over 5 acres when i was a young man. We(I) have eaten these animals in respect and do honored the spirit of that being. I'm sure that you go on down to your local supermarket and buy crap off of the shelf. you have no respect in what the process is in order to survive and continue to live forth. Can you really say that you can survive without the convience of your local fastfood hippy food...
So stop your whinning Mr/Mrs. motivator52and go start a "victory garden"

You know they didn't really kill a dog, right? It's just make-believe. You might not like the actions of the fictional characters, but do you switch off any film where the characters don't behave how you'd like them to? That would seriously restrict your viewing choices.

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Didn't watch a movie about survival because they ate a dog to survive.

YOU SOUND SOOOOO STUPID.

Yes it was upsetting but it was a crucial scene, as the harshness was needed to depict Saiva's character, and the filem eventually ended up revolving around Saiva's character

Thats about all i can say without adding spoilers

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