Chickens from "Baraka"

Few years ago I saw this.. and become vegetarian

Category:

Pets & Animals

[Tyndan]

I just kind of want to eat people now.

[minaMagic3]

this scene hasnt been made to make you become vegetarian its sense it's completle another

[HexagonalBolts]

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.

[Nachoravegnini]

jajajajaj

[napalmocean]

@GKyckling That's a standard practice world wide. It's so they don't fight one another.

[napalmocean]

ah, consumerism...

[camprunamok]

@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.

[GKyckling]

What are they doing at 2:45?

Burning them? Why?

[bigman32193]

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.

[hepsiba]

I didn't understand the message

[kino32al]

0:49 mas pollitos mas pollitos mas pollitos