#go away Colin stop killing the franchise ahahahahahaha

[onewingedxngel]

Please do not reblog.

Colin Trevorrow needs to be fired HOLY HELL.

The new Jurassic World movie is an insult to the existence of brains. When I heard people clapping in the cinema (which is uncommon where I’m at) I legit booed. Wow, what a movie...

I really need to vent, because this movie... OH MY GOD. No, no, no, for the sake of everything, do not incorporate animal rights themes/parallels if it’s clear you don’t know what you’re doing. 

Spoilers for one of the introductory scenes of the film below. Also, I am an animal rights/vegan activist, and as it’s a big passion of mine (and my special interest), I’ll be going into that aspect as well, and I WILL be in my crazy hyper passionate will overindulge in talking about this mood, so get outta here if you don’t want that! It’s going to get VERY long and I’m doing this more for myself than anything, so please don’t start any bullshit in the comments and let me indulge goddammit!

There’s one specific thing that particularly pissed me off that I wanna write about here. I don’t tend to go into much detail about my support of/passion for the animal liberation/vegan movement here for a multitude of reasons, but you will see snippets of it sneak into my writing (e.g. I avoid anthropocentrism, I avoid referring to animals as ‘it’, that kind of thing). I genuinely grow extremely annoyed when I see fiction attempt to tackle the subject, and clearly be written by someone who not only knows nothing about the movement, but also holds no interest for it either. Just taking the aesthetic or the ‘comfortable’ parts while upholding the dominant and invisible ideology of carnism.

There’s a lot wrong with this movie; an insulting script, disgraceful hoards of plot holes, surprisingly boring, etc... but oh my lord, I’d like to focus on this animal rights thing because I don’t think most people will comment on this, and I wanna write about it.

The movie opens with characters trespassing an illegal dinosaur farm/breeding facility, all clad in black and hiding their faces as they document the conditions the dinosaurs are kept in. They are horrified by the conditions and decide to liberate and escape with a sick baby dinosaur because they’d die otherwise, due to the neglect.

This isn’t aluding to or mildly paralleling what activists fighting for animal liberation do... this is LITERALLY what some of us do (I personally have not done direct action, my activism is focused on outreach– but I’d love to do it someday, or vigils, but that’s a whole other story). The imagery of them clad in black and freeing the dinosaur as they make an escape from authorities is... it’s literally just the fucking ALF (Animal Liberation Front). Well, the ALF do lots of property damage, so you could also compare it to people who do the basic documentation (without such damage), but end up rescuing an individual who would otherwise die.

But then the rest of the film does what most others do, to a rather uncomfortable level considering what came before... there’s a noticeable level of casual/unquestioned animal exploitation here, even objectification (a quote from the film is something like “our food, and our food’s food will disappear”, in reference to the loss of crops. Reducing a sentient being to just ‘food’, a someone to a something– which is a focus of my novel, so this gave me a fair amount of motivation to GO AND WRITE IT AND ACTUALLY MAKE A STORY THAT DARES TO CHALLENGE THE READER AND HAVE A SERIOUS DISCUSSION OF ANIMAL LIBERATION (oh the horror!).

It’s a very small thing, but there were other things too, and it all comes together to normalise and avoid questioning what you’d think the film might want to question, you know? It angers me to see the decision to take what activists do in real life, activists who are mocked by some of the general public for having compassion and opposing injustice, taking that imagery and everything they do for animals, and using it in such a cheap and thoughtless manner (considering the rest of the film very much upholds typical carnist attitudes, beliefs and actions). It angers me as an activist myself. As the movement grows– which it absolutely is– this kind of thing really isn’t going to age well... hell, it already aged horribly because this movie’s a JOKE, even if it hadn’t butchered the subject the way it did.

Holy hell I truly believe carnists should not dare to incorporate animal rights/liberation into their story if THIS is how they treat the subject.

Anyhow, my apologies. It’s late, I’m annoyed that this movie was as bad as it was, I’m dead tired and I don’t do much activism during uni, so I got a lot of pent up energy in me. Preferably don’t reblog this because I don’t have the energy to deal with people getting all up in my face if they disagree.

Oh my God I’m tired. This movie drained me.

And yes I swear I’m beginning to work on drafts.

#(ooc) #mun #I'm a lil anxious posting this but... I wrote so much #plus my view as an activist is important to me so #God I am so tired what is life #y'all be good now #oof I need sleep #running on 3 hours today #also the Giganotosaurus deserved so much better in this movie #he deserved better THAN this movie #go away Colin stop killing the franchise ahahahahahaha