My dad sent me a 1 month trial for Netflix last week and, not planning to eventually upgrade and pay for the service, I decided to go for the full on 4-disc-at-a-time monster package. I got my first movies yesterday and decided that I will milk this month for all its worth and try to watch at least one movie every day for the trial.
The first movie I watched was Fast Food Nation and I started watching it at about 9:30 last night. When I first heard of the movie, I assumed it was a documentary but soon realized that this was a fully produced film with actors and the whole ensemble.
The movie was obviously a critique of the fast food industry but the narrative covered many important social topics in the United States, the most obvious being illegal immigration. I was really surprised at the slaughterhouse scenes because, I’m assuming, they used real meat. The memorable parts were not any witty dialogue or the fact that almost half the movie was in spanish but rather the images of cows being killed. The last scene in the slaughterhouse was so gruesome, I felt sick while I was watching it.
3/5
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just watched Fast Food Nation, it’s an impactful flick to say the least… earlier today i passed up a sausage mcmuffin because of it. Evidently it is worth passing up fast food for more than health reasons.