HAR: Vegetarianism/Veganism

Lauryn Edwards
18th January 2022
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Ferdinand. Dir. Carlos Saldanha. 20th Century Studios. 2017.

Ferdinand. Dir. Carlos Saldanha. 20th Century Studios. 2017. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Lauryn Edwards Lauryn Edwards https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/773a916c6f78c5616e0563a34452a4d3?s=96&d=mm&r=g 18th January 2022 18th January 2022

“Built to fight, born to love.” Part of the core ethics depicted within Saldanha’s Ferdinand (2017) is that the exploitation of animals, whether bullfighting or meat production, is unacceptable. However,…

Amelia Keen
18th January 2022
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Okja. Dir. Bong Joon-ho. Netflix. 2017

Okja. Dir. Bong Joon-ho. Netflix. 2017 https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/okjamija.jpg 1024 427 Amelia Keen Amelia Keen https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b15639a5783c8a97ed344d89e0ccb446?s=96&d=mm&r=g 18th January 2022 18th January 2022

There are two kinds of pigs that make an appearance in Okja; genetically modified super-pigs and greedy, corporate capitalist pigs. The slaughterhouse scene forces the viewer to dispel any false…

Lucy Sutherland
17th January 2022
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Legally Blonde. Dir. Robert Luketic. MGM Films. 2001.

Legally Blonde. Dir. Robert Luketic. MGM Films. 2001. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Lucy Sutherland Lucy Sutherland https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d9e7f5b706326ae283d2d15854dc8498?s=96&d=mm&r=g 17th January 2022 18th January 2022

Robert Luketic’s 2001 film Legally Blonde follows sorority girl Elle Woods’ journey at Harvard Law School, with her chihuahua, Bruiser. Bruiser is used as a demonstrative device of Elle’s hyper-femininity…

George Knighton
28th January 2021
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Raw. Dir. Julia Ducournau. Focus World. 2017.

Raw. Dir. Julia Ducournau. Focus World. 2017. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 George Knighton George Knighton https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/edfe51eebeaec06a52627bba69368420?s=96&d=mm&r=g 28th January 2021 17th March 2022

When Julia Ducournau’s debut feature film Raw (2017) was shown at Toronto’s Film Festival, paramedics were called to the scene after cinema-goers fainted during the screening. Raw tells the story of highly gifted 16-year-old…

Archie Scott
22nd January 2019
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Oldboy. Dir. Park Chan-wook. Show East & Tartan Films. 2003.

Oldboy. Dir. Park Chan-wook. Show East & Tartan Films. 2003. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Archie Scott Archie Scott https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a47da163a48d514e077f50613fb3b68a?s=96&d=mm&r=g 22nd January 2019 25th May 2021

Park Chan-wook’s 2003 film Oldboy is at its core a thriller, a revenge story of Oh Dae-su (played by Choi Min-sik) imprisoned in a room for 15 years without any…

Samuel Ross
21st January 2019
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Carnage. Dir. Simon Amstell. BBC. 2017.

Carnage. Dir. Simon Amstell. BBC. 2017. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Samuel Ross Samuel Ross https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c6263209787d0cb095bc63e9dc6863e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g 21st January 2019 25th May 2021

What would the world be like if everybody was vegan? According to Simon Amstell’s vision of the future in Carnage, it’s a peaceful utopia in which the young vegans of tomorrow…

Anna Nawroozi
14th December 2018
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Barnyard. Dir. Steve Oedekerk. Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies. 2006.

Barnyard. Dir. Steve Oedekerk. Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies. 2006. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Anna Nawroozi Anna Nawroozi https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0bf99ca04788f4e9845de18c920cb526?s=96&d=mm&r=g 14th December 2018 25th May 2021

Steve Oedekerk’s Barnyard uses witty puns and gags in order to satirise the idea of the animal as a fixed definition, in that an animal can never truly be anything…

Elaine Yee Lam Wong
26th February 2017
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Noah. Dir. Darren Aronofsky. Paramount Pictures. 2014.

Noah. Dir. Darren Aronofsky. Paramount Pictures. 2014. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Elaine Yee Lam Wong Elaine Yee Lam Wong https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ac0efec18d2659d4bba1a6b6da465219?s=96&d=mm&r=g 26th February 2017 25th May 2021

God says to Noah: Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a…

Sophie Lidyard
18th January 2017
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Jurassic Park . Dir. Steven Spielberg. Universal Studios. 1993.

Jurassic Park . Dir. Steven Spielberg. Universal Studios. 1993. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Sophie Lidyard Sophie Lidyard https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ae8bf1ffeb5187976220e36732bf372d?s=96&d=mm&r=g 18th January 2017 25th May 2021

Stephen Spielberg’s 1993 blockbuster adaptation of Jurassic Park is most well-known for its strikingly realistic puppet and CGI representations of the most fascinating of the prehistoric animals: the dinosaurs. Though the dinosaurs…

Callum Howkins
16th January 2017
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Baraka. Dir. Ron Frike. The Samuel Goldwyn Company. 1992.

Baraka. Dir. Ron Frike. The Samuel Goldwyn Company. 1992. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Callum Howkins Callum Howkins https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/85ace1037f2cbff24e4b1ff32dfa938e?s=96&d=mm&r=g 16th January 2017 25th May 2021

Ron Fricke’s 1992 documentary film Baraka highlights the darker side of human-animal relations through a sequence comparing two very similar visual images. One scene depicts a crowded subway while another shows new-born…