Us and the Animal - A Slaughterhouse Melodrama

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• 2023
• 1 hr 25 mins
• Documentary

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Loving animals and eating them at the same time, ignoring death but enjoying salami, how does that work together? Meat-eating people have managed to suppress the fact that they eat animals that have to be killed first. The profound documentary by Grimme Prize winner David Spaeth goes to those who are at the beginning of the chain and face the facts - to those who do the killing. A young trainee, an experienced head butcher, two women who are taking a slaughter course - the main characters of the film talk about their actions, far from any clichés, in an amazingly open and reflective way. What may seem macabre at first is at the same time shown in all honesty and intensity and revolves around fundamental issues Questions. Also whether robots will be able to do the killing without humans in the future. The protagonists of the film negotiate the entire dilemma of meat consumption on our behalf. What do you think, what do you suppress, what do you feel?