These shots are juxtaposing the humans and animals - we find the cruelty to the chickens horrifying, but it is still something our society has driven us to partake in and consume - in fact, we do it to ourselves, we are funneled about at high speeds through tubes and escalators from job to some consumer shop and back again. But signs of life still show through in to the cities - the shot with the cars at the end is reminiscent of breathing and veins, there is still a lifeblood flowing.
@GKyckling Debeaking. That is so the birds don't peck one another.
This juxtaposition of the chicks on the conveyors with people in the subways mimics the "Grid" scene in Koyaanisqatsi in which the people going up an escalator are compared with frankfurters emerging from a pressing machine. I.E. us city dwellers are about as expendable as hot dogs or poultry.
there's a scene in the movie where a kid in calcutta is begging for food/money on the streets while people simply overlook him and keep walking, yet viewers are only hit emotionally when they view the chicken scene???? smh @ the world.
These shots are juxtaposing the humans and animals - we find the cruelty to the chickens horrifying, but it is still something our society has driven us to partake in and consume - in fact, we do it to ourselves, we are funneled about at high speeds through tubes and escalators from job to some consumer shop and back again. But signs of life still show through in to the cities - the shot with the cars at the end is reminiscent of breathing and veins, there is still a lifeblood flowing.
HexagonalBolts 2 weeks ago
jajajajaj
Nachoravegnini 3 months ago
ah, consumerism...
napalmocean 4 months ago
What are they doing at 2:45?
Burning them? Why?
GKyckling 4 months ago
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CitrusDistrus 4 months ago
@GKyckling Debeaking. That is so the birds don't peck one another.
This juxtaposition of the chicks on the conveyors with people in the subways mimics the "Grid" scene in Koyaanisqatsi in which the people going up an escalator are compared with frankfurters emerging from a pressing machine. I.E. us city dwellers are about as expendable as hot dogs or poultry.
camprunamok 4 months ago
@GKyckling That's a standard practice world wide. It's so they don't fight one another.
napalmocean 4 months ago
there's a scene in the movie where a kid in calcutta is begging for food/money on the streets while people simply overlook him and keep walking, yet viewers are only hit emotionally when they view the chicken scene???? smh @ the world.
bigman32193 5 months ago 3
I didn't understand the message
hepsiba 5 months ago
0:49 mas pollitos mas pollitos mas pollitos
kino32al 6 months ago
I just kind of want to eat people now.
Tyndan 10 months ago 9
this scene hasnt been made to make you become vegetarian its sense it's completle another
minaMagic3 1 year ago 8
1:49
mikydutzaa 1 year ago