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Sacrifice: A slaughterhouse documentary. Probably the most creative heartless documentary ever.

  • Writer: Akkel Charles
    Akkel Charles
  • Dec 4, 2018
  • 2 min read

I'm so upset after watching this man. These poor animals believed they were being loved and cared for to enjoy a goatly and chickening life. It was all to be someone's lunch.

Up to this day I can’t imagine what the day I’m going to die would be like. I’ll wake up, stop. First of all, I don’t know if I’d die in my sleep. Ok let’s bypass dying in my sleep. I’ll probably get up merry as I always do and look forward to a wonderful day. This is subtracting the fact that I die prior to not have great physicality. As I was saying, heading out to face my wonderful day, let us say that I am married. I head to the kitchen to my wife who has breakfast waiting for me. I give her kiss then head to the table for food. The food has no meet because in this alternate world that I’m creating killing of animals isn’t allowed. I could imagine how I would be anticipating what it is that is in the plate and then Boom! My wife comes from behind and cuts my neck. I’d feel so betrayed, devastated and heartbroken. Now think for a minute. Don’t you think animals feel the same exact way. This documentary was so graphic, not that it affected me. To some people it would not even matter. Animals have feelings like we do and develop feelings just like humans do. Animals even develop feelings for humans. For us to betray them. I mean animals kill humans too but that is because of lack of control over their emotions. Humans are paid to kill animals. A fit 8 hour a day job to take care of animals, grow them up and then murder them to be eaten. Must admit they do taste good, but this documentary helped me develop some sympathy.

For a short documentary it was very impacting. I’m not sure it impacted me the way it was supposed to but I’m very much impacted. This was the first ever observational documentary I watched outside of class. It was basically following the killing of animals to the stage of processed meat. The cover of the documentary was a goat head filled with blood hanging from a hook. I mean, that was a clear indication to proceed with caution but for some reason I was intrigued more. How they presented the observation cinematography wise was both great and torturous. You saw different animals in a room, up close, being fed. Poor animals actually thought it was going to be a regular day. Eventually one of each kind was pulled out of one room and put into another. They then had their throats slit and to summarize, were then cut up and processed. Sound tortured you throughout the documentary. The sounds were very distinct. The screams when their throats were being slit were clearly heard. You clearly heard the blood from their necks pouring on the floor. It was unbelievable. The characters were easy to distinguish. There was the slaughter and the slaughtered. The slaughterers made it seem so easy to slaughter animals. It was almost like they’ve been doing it for a living. Right?

 
 
 

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