the turtle scene
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buzzkill1999 — 19 years ago(August 31, 2006 04:07 PM)
My Japanese girlfriend likes to eat her raw sea urchin fresh out of the shell, while the spines are still moving. I don't find it disturbing but not exactly appetizing either. I just file it under "different strokes for different folks."
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BigBabou — 19 years ago(November 29, 2006 05:12 AM)
"umm I was literally made to see that movie during my Japanese classes and it was terrible! I just don't get what's so cool about that. I generally like Japanese movies, well, even the old ones, but Tampopo is a total disaster. It makes no sense to me."
just because you didn't get it, doesn't make it a disastrous movie.
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dj-anon — 16 years ago(March 26, 2010 04:39 AM)
As soon as I saw that scene I knew there was going to be a silly thread about it on IMDB. Unless you are a vegan that has proof they didn't eat the turtle afterwards, your being hypocrite.
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed. -
cheesy_dave-1 — 15 years ago(January 13, 2011 04:47 AM)
This movie was about food and one of the realities of eating food is that animals need to die so that humans can eat them. Should they have used imitation chicken carcasses for the cooking scenes? And how about the oyster scene. That animal was killed on screen too.
If you eat meat, then you need to come to terms with the fact that an animal died for your sustenance. Perhaps if more people contemplated this there would be less wastage of meats and in turn animal life. -
coolaree — 14 years ago(November 21, 2011 06:40 PM)
yah that was a slightly shocking scene, cause after all you would never see that in sanitised Western movies (excluding docos).
Also raises the question of how many turtles did they kill to get that scene rightthough im sure they were all killed quickly.
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wurstero — 13 years ago(November 09, 2012 04:50 AM)
I live in Chengdu China right now.
In the supermarket you buy a life turtle and it gets killed right in front of you before they pack it up. Same with fish from water tanks.
It happens tens of thousands of times a day in China.
Now what really confuses me concerning the question of this thread:
What good would it make to not show a traditional procedure of killing an animal for consumption in a film?
I mean really why would anyone care knowing that this is an actual reality in huge parts of the world.
So if we don't show this in a film that means it doesn't exist?
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mankillingshark — 10 years ago(April 19, 2015 06:26 PM)
So, so sad:(.
I wish all humans WOULD watch stuff like this and stop ignoring what really happens to the animals they eat.
As for the people saying humans are "natural omnivores", and "animals have to die so we can eat", I've been vegan for 9 years and am the healthiest person I know, and look far younger than anyone my age.
Please, please be vegan.