Movies about Vivisection
Activism comes in many different forms. Sometimes it can be as simple as watching movies with friends and family members and having conversations about them afterward. Here are some short lists of films to get the people in your life on their way to helping animals!
Rodinné filmy
Kotě: This cute movie investigates the rights, emotions, and sensitivities of animals while questioning why humans love some animals and slaughter others. Rent it or stream from Amazon.
Charlotte na webu: Zde je další film, který zdůrazňuje, co musí prase udělat, aby se vyhnulo porážce. Jako Kotě, this adaptation of E.B. White’s classic children’s novel, poses the question why humans love some animals but slaughter others. Stream it on Netflix or Amazon.
Kuřecí běh: Claymation chickens fight to escape from the prison-like farm where they are destined to be killed. Rent or stream it from Amazon.
Volný Willy: Perhaps the best-known movie on this list, it’s about a boy fighting to free an orca from captivity. Rent it or stream from Amazon.
Legálně blondýna 2: When the main character learns that the mother of her beloved Chihuahua is trapped in a cruel lab, she goes to D.C. to fight the vivisection industry. Rent it or stream from Amazon.
Horror/Sci-Fi Movies
king Kong: One of the most famous and saddest stories about a wild animal who is taken from nature, placed in shackles, and forced to perform for human entertainment. Rent or stream one of the versions from Amazon.
Ostrov ztracených duší: This 1932 classic tale about animal experimentation investigates the way that nonhuman animals experience pain and suffer like us while questioning the ethics of vivisection. This movie defined a new genre in horror cinema! Rent it!
Dravec and Predators: The tables are turned, and the humans become the hunted in this sci-fi franchise. Rent or stream them from Amazon.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes: This sci-fi gem looks at the horrors of vivisection, the exotic pet trade, and the suffering of wild animals in captivity. Rent it or stream from Amazon.
Texaský masakr motorovou pilou: One of the earliest and nastiest looks at eating meat in modern society, this film put humans in the slaughterhouse, and horror movies were never the same again. Rent or stream it from Amazon.
Dokumentární
Film Zvířata: This documentary presents an overview of animals who are used in factory farming, research, and entertainment as well as of the international animal rights movement.
Blackfish: This documentary made international headlines for its gripping investigation of the death of orca trainer Dawn Brancheau and SeaWorld’s systemic abuse of orcas and other marine mammals. Now, you can watch it through Netflix or Amazon.
Narozen k divokosti: This inspiring film documents the lives of orphaned baby elephants and orangutans and the people who rescue, raise, and reintroduce them to the wild. Rent or stream it from Amazon.
Zátoka: This Oscar-winning film investigates the annual dolphin slaughter at Taiji, Japan. Rent or stream it from Amazon.
Pozemšťané: Narrated by Joaquin Phoenix, this extremely moving documentary explores major industries and the ways in which they use and abuse animals. Rent it or watch it online.
Potraviny, as: This movie takes an in-depth look at America’s food production and the corporations that prioritize profits over welfare and health. It’s available through Amazon and Netflix streaming.
Forks Over Knives: This documentary examines the connection between diet and most diseases of affluence and how they can be controlled or reversed by eating a plant-based diet. Stream it through Netflix or Amazon.
Jsem Zvíře: Learn about Ingrid E. Newkirk and PETA’s history and struggle for animal rights! Rent or buy this!
Lolita: Slave to Entertainment: This provocative documentary investigates the sad capture and solitary life of the orca Lolita at a marine park in Miami. Rent it or watch it online.
Podívejte se také na Veganflix, webovou stránku, která spravuje spravedlnost zvířat a veganská videa.
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Animal research in the movies
This week John Meredith, UAR’s Head of Education and Outreach, ponders some of the less accurate depictions of animal research in the movies.
When you talk about animal research in public you get a lot of very interesting and unexpected questions. But I have never before been asked which movie representations of animal research I thought were the worst. It seemed like a question worth answering. So here, for the first time, are the UAR top ten worst animal research movies. Have we missed any other contenders? Let us know .
In reverse order:
1. The Amazing Spider Man
Starting us off is Rhys Ifans becoming more than usually lizard-like in The Amazing Spider Man. It’s the usual thing of science affronting Nature by playing god, tampering with DNA: Nature is predictably unimpressed and avenges itself by transforming Ifans into Lizard Man. In fact, the representation of animal research in this movie is too casual to be really bad, and the idea of researching regeneration in lizards isn’t overtly criticised until Rhys oversteps with some ill-considered self-experimentation, but as an example of the old fashioned Hollywood anti-science sub-genre of Leave It Alone, We Don’t Want To Know, it earns a place on our chart of shame, although at the ‘mostly harmless’ entry level.
2. Napodobovat
What if huge, super-intelligent, carnivorous, predatory cockroaches were able to disguise themselves as humans? This movie dares to ask the question. Once again, scientists have been messing about with genes, and once again innocent people are paying for it. This time the blame is clear: bad science; leave the animals alone. But it’s only roaches and the movie doesn’t really care about them, and anyway, we all secretly love the idea of gigantic, man-eating, insects disguised as Humphrey Bogart, so we can’t be too cross about it.
3. Piraňa
More genes, more mayhem. It’s a spoof and the evil science is played for laughs but it’s still a version of the same old story: scientists irresponsibly tampering with animals and the animals getting their own back. In spades. It’s all too silly and funny to get upset about but as the whole animal research world knows, vertebrate fish must be treated with greater consideration than invertebrate cockroaches so it scores one higher on the chart than the more moralising Mimic.
4. Jurský park
Because dinosaurs are animals too.
5. The Island of Dr Moreau
Many people’s first introduction to the fictionalised horrors of animal experimentation HG Wells’ classic novel has received a number of film treatments and all of them are stinkers. The maverick Dr Moreau is yet another celluloid scientist who lacks the finer moral instincts of the popcorn gobblers who sit in the dark to peer at his hideous experiments. Moreau has been driven from polite society because of his addiction to gruesome vivisection and has dedicated his life to experimenting with animal-human hybrids that, frankly, you would not want to have for dinner, in either sense. The book was, in part, motivated by anti-animal research activism but the movies based on it are not really that political and mostly replace Wells’s moralising with a lot of Look! Monsters! So a mid-table position for the evil doctor despite painting the lurid mental picture of animal research that still seems to obsess so many abolitionist activists.
6. I am legend
The only entry that offers a positive picture of the benefits of research with animals. Scientist Will Smith is immune to a virus that seems to have wiped out the rest of humanity except for some cute women and children. Which means he has to find the cure. He only has about 110 minutes to do it but he is Will Smith. So that is what he does, testing treatment after treatment on rats until one of them survives and hey presto! So why worse than the monsters of Dr Moreau? Because the misleading idea that animal models are a simple translational model for human disease, that if it works on rats it is ready for the pharmacy counter at Boots, can do more damage for public understanding of animal research than any amount of fantasy horror. Animal research is essential,but we have to be clear about what it can do, and what it can’t and unrealistic expectations play into the hands of those people who thrive on dishonest simplification.
7. Deep Blue Sea
For once the scientists aren’t evil. In fact they are trying to find a cure for Alzheimer’s. Unfortunately they make the schoolboy error of going straight from mice to sharks and the results are predictable: super- intelligent sharks that are still, somehow, demented. And extremely angry. It is not obvious what the sharks have to be angry about given the IQ boost but the filmic message is clear: tampering with animals is unnatural and will have terrible consequences. Better put up with the dementia. This one scores especially high because of the traumatic potential of confusing it with The Deep Blue Sea Terrence Rattigan’s tender evocation of a doomed love affair between the wife of a judge and a fighter pilot.
8. Nejlepší přítel člověka
Heroic animal activists let loose a genetically modified dog from a secret laboratory run by the malevolent Dr Jarret (what good could come from a name like that?) and live to regret it. Made in 1993 when anti-animal research activism was in its most dangerous phase this movie really stirs the pot with its thoughtless misrepresentation of animal researchers as unfeeling and immoral and animal activists as sole defenders of reason. It is played for laughs here and there but so much provides the template for so many anti-animal research misunderstandings that it deserves its high position on our chart.
9. Vzestup planety opic
Great apes like chimpanzees are barely used in animal research anywhere in the world (it is illegal to use them in EU countries) and monkeys make up a tiny proportion of lab animals. But you wouldn’t know that from the movies. Rise of the Planet of the Apes is typical in its depiction of chimps being kept in barren, cramped conditions and casually submitted to stressful and painful medical procedures in the pursuit of profit. It is no wonder they hold a revolution. No animal researcher would recognise anything that happens in the movie but many of the millions of viewers will have confirmed in their minds that this is the secret truth of the animal house, helping to poison the well of public debate. It does a lot of damage. Really it should stop. Where is Charlton Heston when you need him?
10. The Plague dogs
And at the top of the chart, we have the daddy of all anti-animal research movies The Plague Dogs. This animated feature made such an impact on so many children that it is quite possible that it had a direct effect on the criminal activism that emerged in the years after its release in 1983. It is the stirring story of two dogs that have escaped from a research facility and who spend the rest of the movie in desperate flight from their captors. The researchers are represented as cruel, the research as unnecessary, driven only by cold, scientific curiosity and causing horrific pain and suffering. Who wouldn’t be moved to oppose this sort of thing? Except this sort of thing isn’t the sort of thing that happens and the opposition came very close to shutting down research into terrible, debilitating human diseases and therefore condemning many people to unnecessary suffering. Real, not cartoon suffering. It would be nice if film makers would begin to realise that this matters, that this is too important a subject to treat casually or, worse, to misrepresent. But we are not holding our breath.
Poslední úprava: 6. dubna 2022 08:34
3 Retro Animated Movies That Expose What Happens Inside Laboratories
Věděli jste, že miliony of animals are subjected to cruel and painful experiments and killed each year in the United States? These three throwback films lift the curtain on the world of animals in laboratories and raise important questions about how we treat other living beings. So pop some popcorn and start streaming one of these classics.
1. A kid-friendly flick with songs, bright visuals, and fun characters, FernGully: Poslední deštný prales (1992) spends most of its screen time on an overt conservation message, as rainforest denizens fight back against a logging company. But one character, Batty (voiced by the late Robin Williams), has a unique background: He has taken refuge in the rainforest after escaping from a laboratory. Batty is so disoriented by an experimental surgery in which electrodes were implanted in his brain that he routinely flies into trees and responds in non sequiturs. He’s terrified of humans, as are many real animals who suffer in laboratories. But despite such cruel experiments, Batty remains funny, sweet, and loyal to his friends.
FernGully is a wonderful introduction to the topics of animal experimentation and environmental degradation, and it’s appropriate for kids of all ages.
2. The Secret of NIMH (1982) focuses on the animals who are most commonly found in laboratories: mice and rats, more than 100 million of whom are killed each year in experiments ranging from forced poisoning to grotesque surgeries. The rats in Tajemství NIMH suffer through painful injections that have the side effect of heightened intelligence. They escape from the laboratory at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) but quickly find that NIMH’s experiments mean they can no longer live normal rat lives.
Although rated G, Tajemství NIMH has some scary scenes and is best suited to older kids and pre-teens.
3. The Plague Dogs (1982) follows the story of two dogs who escape from a government laboratory in northern England. Dogs in laboratories are often subjected to repeated experiments, and the movie does not shy away from this: Rowf, a black Labrador mix, is seen struggling through a horrifying endurance test that times how long he can swim before he drowns, only to be revived and tested again. Snitter, a fox terrier, undergoes experimental brain surgery that leaves him muddled and often in crippling pain.
Morové psy is not intended for young children. With sometimes shocking violence and heart-wrenching images, the film is most appropriate for young adults who want to learn more about the lives of dogs and other animals in laboratories. It also raises many key issues: the secrecy surrounding experiments on animals, how animals used in laboratories are acquired and treated, and the cognitive dissonance exhibited by experimenters.
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