This movie balance humor with facts. It challenge the norm, by making "carnivores" the minority. It shows a humor filled theory how the world would take tackle climate change with the help of plant based food. It also take the perspective of how animals feel in the society we live in and express their day-to-day lives with the help of music and art.
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Super Swine Flu.
morrison-dylan-fan1 October 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Getting a E-Mail revealing that from the 8th of October BBC iPlayer would no longer be compatible with the PS3 system,I checked for titles I've been meaning to view for ages. First becoming aware of it years ago after seeing Adam Curtis's two incredible docs on the platform,I felt it was time to unleash carnage.
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Cooking up a passion project, writer/director/ narrator Simon Amstell & cinematographer Casper Leaver leap from 2067 to post-WWII Britain in order to serve up a stylish take on the history of vegan,from the dour coloured footage in a interview marking the founding of The Vegan Society,to the brash, futuristic flashing lights colours running along a peaceful meat-free future.
Bringing out a seriousness not displayed in his many panel show appearance, Amstell displays a striking eye for mixing footage of slaughterhouse with absurdest, archive footage of celebrity chefs such as Gordon Ramsay saying "Happy meat (animals) taste better" and Fanny Cradock performing her cooking show at the Royal Albert Hall in 1956.
Opening the press release statement with the line "I made a Comedy about being a Vegan-I'm sorry!", the screenplay by Amstell makes his taste clear in short black Comedy sketches linked by the history of Vegan, from meat eaters walking round like zombies once the sale of meat is banned,to a Super Swine Flu in 2021 spreading like wildfire among the population.
Along with a plate of Vegan, Amstell links the sketches together with a sweet underlying theme of empathy, touching on not only the way humans treat animals, but also the way they treat each other in a world of carnage.
View on the film:
Cooking up a passion project, writer/director/ narrator Simon Amstell & cinematographer Casper Leaver leap from 2067 to post-WWII Britain in order to serve up a stylish take on the history of vegan,from the dour coloured footage in a interview marking the founding of The Vegan Society,to the brash, futuristic flashing lights colours running along a peaceful meat-free future.
Bringing out a seriousness not displayed in his many panel show appearance, Amstell displays a striking eye for mixing footage of slaughterhouse with absurdest, archive footage of celebrity chefs such as Gordon Ramsay saying "Happy meat (animals) taste better" and Fanny Cradock performing her cooking show at the Royal Albert Hall in 1956.
Opening the press release statement with the line "I made a Comedy about being a Vegan-I'm sorry!", the screenplay by Amstell makes his taste clear in short black Comedy sketches linked by the history of Vegan, from meat eaters walking round like zombies once the sale of meat is banned,to a Super Swine Flu in 2021 spreading like wildfire among the population.
Along with a plate of Vegan, Amstell links the sketches together with a sweet underlying theme of empathy, touching on not only the way humans treat animals, but also the way they treat each other in a world of carnage.
An important contribute to the vegan society
yuvyaish4 April 2017
I've never seen a use of humor in this way to promote veganism, but i sure like it. This film is absurd, but also hilarious! Too bad it's only on BBC iplayer on the UK cause i would spread it in theaters. Simon Amstell is one hell of a guy. So show it to your friends. C'mon, I dare you.
Funny, effective, simply brilliant
mayo-1448522 March 2017
People feel judged before a vegan even opens their mouth's. Guilt and annoyance are very common associations with the vegan movement. Here, Simon Amstell, wipes that slate clean. We are all equally mocked and the absurdity creates equality so that we can all relax and watch a simultaneously informative, moving and utterly hilarious film. Whatever you eat you are, without a doubt, in for a treat. It's truly remarkable.
An excellent movie with a crucial message presented in a fun way
striborthebest-421448 June 2017
Simon Amstell did a brilliant job with this mockumentary. It shows, in a nutshell, everything that is wrong with today's food trends and eating habits. And I am even not vegan. Yet. This will make me reconsider.
I'd recommend this film to every person.
I'd recommend this film to every person.
A Must See For Fans of Simon Amstell
lornamd-111 April 2020
brilliant
ttyyrrdd5 February 2022
I had the lowest expectations, maybe because the poor distribution I thought it was a joke, low budget, amateur, probably just a strechted short film. Nothing to be taken seriously.
I was wrong, realized it was something serious in the first minutes and I enjoyed every line it It's fun, brilliant, and very well crafted, totally recommend it.
I was wrong, realized it was something serious in the first minutes and I enjoyed every line it It's fun, brilliant, and very well crafted, totally recommend it.
It's a propaganda film basically
curzon_dax23 October 2018
It has the facade of comedy, but it soon becomes clear that it's a propaganda film for the vegan lobby (Amstell is a vegan himself). Without respecting the scientific method the movie implies that vegan diet is healthy.
5/10 Wouldn't recommend
vosnescis3 November 2019
"Like a monk you'd like #x22; was rather uncharacteristic and vulgar.
So was assuming everyone wants certain celebrities regardless of whether they are vegan.
A lot of the film was rather redundant, and also flamboyant, painting vegans a little crazy.
Didn't like the lack of responses to certain fallacies, or the scene where the old woman doesn't remember anything, and keeps getting upset over her food being called "It." I thought it would make a lot more sense for someone in her state to simply respond to the absurdity of the free-range argument rather than get stuck on semantics and disbelief that free-range exists. It's obvious that killing an animal is wrong regardless of whether the animal is free-range or not.
All in all I'd prefer to see a sober black comedy concerning veganism, not really this, but it was still quite amusing and had its moments.
A lot of the film was rather redundant, and also flamboyant, painting vegans a little crazy.
Didn't like the lack of responses to certain fallacies, or the scene where the old woman doesn't remember anything, and keeps getting upset over her food being called "It." I thought it would make a lot more sense for someone in her state to simply respond to the absurdity of the free-range argument rather than get stuck on semantics and disbelief that free-range exists. It's obvious that killing an animal is wrong regardless of whether the animal is free-range or not.
All in all I'd prefer to see a sober black comedy concerning veganism, not really this, but it was still quite amusing and had its moments.
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