Year: 2010
Directors: Victor Nieuwenhuijs & Maartje Seyferth
Writers: Maartje Seyferth
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Review by: Rick McGrath
Rating: 9 out of 10
When killer Dutch writer/director Maartje Seyferth came up with the concept for Meat, she must have seriously pondered Matthew’s admonition about the flesh being weak in the face of temptation.
And then dropped some acid.
Or she may have considered the wisdom of Oscar Wilde, who claimed the only way to deal with temptation was to give into it.
In Meat, both ideas work, and both are explored. The resultant story is a stunningly rich study of sex and death, pleasure and pain, fantasy and reality – as well as one of the most imaginative damnations of the animal industry you’ll ever experience. Yes, butchers are a tradition that goes back to the domestication of animals, but a butcher is also a metaphor for cruel and deadly people,...
Directors: Victor Nieuwenhuijs & Maartje Seyferth
Writers: Maartje Seyferth
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Rick McGrath
Rating: 9 out of 10
When killer Dutch writer/director Maartje Seyferth came up with the concept for Meat, she must have seriously pondered Matthew’s admonition about the flesh being weak in the face of temptation.
And then dropped some acid.
Or she may have considered the wisdom of Oscar Wilde, who claimed the only way to deal with temptation was to give into it.
In Meat, both ideas work, and both are explored. The resultant story is a stunningly rich study of sex and death, pleasure and pain, fantasy and reality – as well as one of the most imaginative damnations of the animal industry you’ll ever experience. Yes, butchers are a tradition that goes back to the domestication of animals, but a butcher is also a metaphor for cruel and deadly people,...
- 11/30/2010
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