Earthlings (2005)

the audience applauded

hyped garbage

Absolutely the worst movie.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

I feel like one day, when everyone realizes how wrong it is to discriminate against nonhumans, this movie will be mentioned in the history books, just because of how great its message was. I think the more people watch this, the more animals will get saved, so my lifetime goal will be to show this movie to as many people as possible. However, this movie got only eight stars because it has only scratched the surface, since there are many other industries that also abuse animals, like the honey, silk, and pharmaceutical industries. I also don't like how they think that animal euthanasia through lethal injection is okay, because it still denies the animal of a slightly longer life, and it's against God. A better solution to this would be simply liberating the unwanted animal(s) into the wild, and the law should not only ban animal euthanasia, but also fine people for breeding cats/dogs in the first place, so that puppy mills would no longer have this issue.

This must be one of the hardest documentaries I've ever watched. Loving animals and a meat-eater, I've been ignorant in this part of the meat-production, as I guess most other meat-eaters are. The video clips in this documentary aren't easy to watch. They show unsencored clips of what human beings are capable of doing to defenceless animals. I must say I had to pause and take a break from watching a few times during it due to strong scenes. Although the strong scenes, they give a perspective noone want to talk about.I hope it's gotten better since 2005, and I hope this sort of animal cruelty is a part of the past. One thing is certain, I will eat alot less meat from now on, all thanks to this documentary, and I think we all might be better off doing the same.10/10 because this is a good documentary, lifechanging, and one I will remember for years to come. Also mindblowing what the human race is capable of doing to animals.

Is it the most violent, horrific, disturbing documentary I've ever seen.. yes. Does it use disturbing footage to cause the viewer to reevaluate their life.... yes. Would I have not been as moved if they did not use these tactics to cause such an impact.... yes.If you do not make it through to the end. Past part 4 - the science section, and part 5 - entertainment (you have not seen this movie).How anyone could defend the food industry or the science industry after watching this film is beyond me. How dare you!Summary: The science and food industry in essentially massacring and torturing innocent, helpless animals, in a prolonged fashion. The film is very hard to watch, and eye opening because of the footage that you witness. Anyone that get's angry at the film makers is just angry because they do not wan't to quit eating meat. They are angry at the film makers for pointing out the fact that they do not have a soul, and are morally, and mentally retarded. They sum up our relationships with animals in 5 parts: Pets, Food, Clothes, Science, and Entertainment. Each more disturbing and harder to watch than the last part. Be ready for it... especially the science part. The fact that we are breeding animals for the sole purpose of torturing them for the duration of their existence in the name of science; is absolutely absurd. We do not come to any real conclusions at the end of the research. Continue to put a hand full of humans through the research, and it barely ever works out (because we are very different is our genetic make up....duh..). This does not justify starving, isolating, inducing head trauma, burning, poisoning, and radiating, for years at a time. We are above all of this.. none of it makes sense, and anyone who disagrees with any of that, I truly feel sorry for you. Conclusion: Please Watch This Documentary - And Do Something About It.

Early on, Earthlings, a documentary film by Shaun Monson, presents striking images of Nazi genocidal atrocities towards Jews, which elicit a curious cognitive dissonance in the viewer's mind - certainly the Jews were cruelly "treated like animals", but on this occasion we are moved to ask a different question: should even animals be treated this way? Or did the Nazi treatment of Jews stem in fact from the socially accepted reduction of animals to mere objects? From there on, it goes on to discuss the extent of modern society's pervasive speciesism, successively covering five expanses: Pets, Food, Clothes, Entertainment and Science. The ordering of this sequence is cunning and effective, and it helps Monson make his case about the endemic nature of speciesism in our society.Earthlings speaks to our innate sense of compassion. Something that is there inside all of us, but needs a reawakening. It is a movie that examines our spiritual conscience, personal evolution and so much more. I did have to prepare myself before I watched it mentally not to cry through the entire movie. I managed to get by with tears welling up in my eyes, and some trickling down my face, but that was unavoidable. If you have at least a bit of a heart within you, this movie is going to make you cringe at times and evoke some serious emotion, but that is not a good enough reason not to see it. I'm not going to attempt to describe the ghastly scenes in Earthlings. There were parts I missed because I had to turn away. At other times I acted like a little kid watching a horror film, covering my face with my hands, only watching what could slip through the cracks between my fingers. But this is no horror movie. Earthlings is real. Yes, it is inconvenient to find this out. Yes, it is going to make you rethink your ways, and yes, it may lead you to make some major changes in your life, but that is what evolution of the human being and spirit is all about.As a production, Monson's Earthlings is a meticulously crafted work, featuring narration by Joaquin Phoenix, a moodily effective musical score by Moby, and rare footage from inside the animal factory farming industry that must have been difficult to acquire, giving it the right atmosphere and the right facts to really drive the message home.Earthlings forcefully, sometimes disturbingly, reminds us of an essential character of our consciousness, something about ourselves that our culture often dismisses: compassion and empathy. Along the way it shows and tells some inconvenient truths that most of us would probably prefer to avoid, laying bare a mass hypocrisy that we mindlessly accept. Earthlings shows us what is right there to see, if we would only look directly and honestly.