Rent Gunda (2020)
3.5 of 5 from 77 ratings
1h 33min
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- Synopsis:
In the vastness of the living world, we share our planet with billions of farm animals. However, in industrialized societies we are conditioned to ignore the sentience of these animals, often regarded as a passive resource. In 'Gunda', master filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky offers a radically recalibrated moral universe, where encounters with a mother sow (the eponymous Gunda), two ingenious cows, and a scene-stealing, one-legged chicken, remind us of the inherent value of life for all beings. By returning a pig's gaze, listening to a cow's gentle lowing, or observing a chicken find its wings, Kossakovsky voids any pretension that we are unique in our capacity for emotion, consciousness or will. Immersed in these animals' lives, lived to the full in joy and pain, it becomes inescapable that humankind must swiftly undertake the major changes necessary to end mass exploitation of our fellow creatures. 'Gunda' is Kossakovsky's deeply personal attempt to renew our vision of life and meditate on the mystery of all animal consciousness, including our own. - Actors:
- Gunda
- Directors:
- Viktor Kossakovsky
- Producers:
- Anita Rehoff Larsen
- Writers:
- Viktor Kossakovsky, Ainara Vera
- Aka:
- Gunda: Mother, Pig
- Studio:
- Umbrella Ent
- Genres:
- Documentary, Special Interest
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Reviews (1) of Gunda
Beautiful - Gunda review by DL
The black and white photography was truly stunning. This is not a film for the MTV generation, it moves at a leisurely pace and is without dialogue.
I loved it - apart from the ending, which although thankfully was not graphic, left the viewer in no doubt what had taken place
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