As far as I know, for the first time in the history of mainstream movies, questions about meat-eating and our treatment of other animals are taken somewhat seriously.
So far, the official idea of a vegan has been this:
At the end of the story, the vegan has always been punished for not being normal. Or at least a sane person has come and showed them the light. Or they've died, or gone crazy, or exploded. In the ending scene of About a Boy (^), the crazy vegetarian woman's son is seen smiling, wearing normal clothes and carving a turkey. He's finally been liberated from his mother's insane ideas of compassion and nonviolence.
That was 12 years ago. Now it's 2014, and this time, the vegan looks like this:
Yes, Darren Aronofsky's Noah is dealing with such themes as speciesism and veganism. It even equates meat-eating with evil. (Very rad.)
I saw the film yesterday (or the day before that, my life is slightly chaotic) and it was a strange experience. It's a very weird movie. Anyway, I'd like to go and hug Darren Aronofsky for being the first mainstream filmmaker to take these questions seriously.
It's not so much about the movie itself. It's about what it represents. Something is changing. I've heard that in the past, every movie with a homosexual character had to either kill, punish or convert them in the end. I don't know what movie was the first one to refuse to do that, but Noah is for animal rights what that movie was for gay rights.
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