EARTHLINGS
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Narrator: Joaquin PhoenixDVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language)
Running Time: 95 minutes
Product features:
- Narrated by Joaquin Phoenix
- Soundtrack by Moby
- Written, Produced and Directed by Shaun Monson
- Co-Produced by Persia White and Maggie Q
- "This is the single most powerful and informative movie about society's treatment of animals." -Woody Harrelson
DVD Reviews of EARTHLINGS
DVD Review: Abysmal, heartbreaking TRUTH.
Summary: 5 Stars
This film isn't a conspiracy theory. It's not some weird, skewed perspective on how animals are treated on a daily and hourly basis. It's a harsh, open-eyed presentation of facts, and the facts are horrifying. Phoenix narrates a broad array of footage detailing homo sapiens appalling mistreatment, torture, and slaughter of animals. The footage is often difficult to watch, and some images will stay with you for a long, long time. This is the first time, for instance, that I have seen footage of a live skinning of a dog in China. Words can't describe my visceral and emotional reaction to this, but it should be seen. As Phoenix says, quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson: "You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
This film offers footage that most people would rather not see, and rather not contemplate. But, as the saying goes, "we must not refuse to see with our eyes what they must endure with their bodies." _Earthings_ presents a straightforward record of our daily, appalling mistreatment, murder, and exploitation of animals--for food, for entertainment, for so-called science, most importantly for MONEY. Everyone who benefits, perhaps unknowingly, from this cruelty should watch it, and judge for themselves.
This should be essential viewing.
DVD Review: If you care about animals at ALL, PLEASE watch this video!
Summary: 5 Stars
No problems with the product...and the service was fast. I think this is a movie that EVERYONE should see. Even if you don't make any changes in your life because of it, everyone should see what goes on and after doing so, try to make the world a better place for every living thing.DVD Review: Difficult but perhaps life changing
Summary: 5 Stars
Earthlings shows things no sane human wants to watch, things that make you wince, that make your heart shrivel, that leave you feeling drained and stupefied at the horrors perpetrated on a daily basis for nothing more than satisfying the interests and tastes of individual homo sapiens. Many may describe this as a film about animal rights, but the subject is not so much animals as it is humans, not so much about rights as it is the struggle to live compassionately.
Earthlings opens by laying out its assumptions, beginning with the premise of specieism, a variation on the human habit of assigning heightened moral value to isolated features of our own species, such as race, nationality, or sex. In asserting special rights, humans justify the treatment of animals - as they have done with women or certain ethnic groups - as creatures of less value, less worthy of respect, as in fact not creatures at all but property.
The filmmakers proceed to look at five ways in which animals serve humans: as pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and research subjects. There is a narrative of sorts, but the of images of cruelty and horror tell the real story, a story of suffering on a scale so unimaginable it is overwhelming. Even more disheartening is that much of this suffering is caused not because people are starving, or naked, or without other means of enriching their lives, but because we like the taste of flesh, we like the feel of leather, we like the thrill of the hunt. This is suffering caused for nothing more than fulfillment of sensual desire.
I have been a vegetarian for nearly two years, dating back to my first six-month visit to Nepal, a country with low sanitation and health standards. I stopped eating meat for health reasons. I was not and have not been an animal rights activist, though I do have a great fondness for and interest in animals. I came to this film with an open mind and heart; I now feel traumatized. I don't blame the filmmakers for this. They have simply shown me what is and made me aware of things I ignored. As the filmmakers point out, it's not so much that these truths are hidden. Most of us prefer not to see them.
Consider this. Earthlings officially premiered in 2005, which means it has been in circulation for at least three years. But if you if google a search string of [earthlings review] you will find most returns are from sites about vegetarianism or animal protection. No reviews from major media or major critics, despite the fact that the producers (without the help of a distributor) put the film in a number of theaters in order for it to be considered for an Academy Award nomination. At the internet's two largest movie databases, IMBD and Rotten Tomatoes, the latter has no listing at all, the former no links to external reviews.
If you are prepared for an emotional and intellectual challenge and can withstand the pain of seeing animals, while still alive, having their throats slits, being burnt, beaten, electrocuted, shot, or gassed, then you might like to view or purchase a copy of the film here. A streaming version good for one week is available for US$2.99.
"Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return."
Ecclesiastes 3:19-21
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DVD Review: Why is There Violence in the World?
Summary: 5 Stars
This documentary shows clearly that our world is based on extreme violence towards other sentient beings. Humans are creating pure hell for animals used for food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research. No one wants to see this violence so it is kept hidden but it must be exposed as any abuse and corruption must be exposed in order to end it. This difficult to watch film is heavy duty exposure of humankind's dirty secrets and should be viewed by everyone so that no one in the future will have to. Peace must be for all Earthlings - not just humans. This is how we will end violence in our world. DVD Review: amazing
Summary: 5 Stars
This documentary was eye opening, informative, well structured and should be seen by all who choose to inclued meat in their diet as ignorance is too often the case in such matters.
This documentary tells the story of truth in marketing and is definatly food for thought.
Description of EARTHLINGS
Narrated by Academy Award nominee Joaquin Phoenix (WALK THE LINE, GLADIATOR), EARTHLINGS is a feature-length documentary about humankind's absolute economic dependence on animals raised as pets, food, clothing, entertainment and for scientific research. Using hidden cameras and never-before-seen footage, EARTHLINGS chronicles the day-to-day practices at some of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely entirely on animals for profit. Powerful, informative and thought-provoking, EARTHLINGS is by far the most comprehensive documentary ever produced on the correlation between nature, animals and human economic interests.Genres DVDs
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