...made by some unenlightened people.
The film totally failed to condemn animal cruelty, very poorly done. I think the main character felt that animals exist to fulfill her pathetic attention seeking due to her failed upbringing, pity there was no therapist to help sort it out and animals needed to suffer.
She was definitely selfish, and I don't buy that her dog found poison in an area where '5 cars a year go by', yeah right, it died on the trek.
sharePeople eat meat and it doesn't come wrapped in plastic and styrofoam from the grocery store. It is force fed with steroids to grow fast. Then slaughtered by poorly paid undocumented workers and then goes to the grocery store.
Unless you are a vegeterian climb off your moral high horse about a dog that lived until it died. It could have been tied to a tire in some crappy back yard.
I don't know everything. Neither does anyone else
In the 1970s hunters still got paid for dingo scalps. Strichnine laden baits was the easiest way to do it.
shareI was also shocked by the cruelty towards the animals in this dreadfully boring film.
shareGo watch a Disney flick.
shareWhere was the cruelty? She tamed some wild animals and made them available for her long journey. They're desert dwellers and can go long periods without water, and great for carrying her gear. So what if she hit out at one of them for leaving her and scaring her to death. I'd do the same under those dire circumstances. As for the dog, well that particular poison was used to kill dingoes in the outback for years, so it is feasible that her dog did come across it on the trek. She didn't want to shoot her beloved dog, but what could she do, let it die in pain and very slowly? Come off it, it wasn't a case of animal neglect. Her camels had rest periods whenever she stopped, and she would have tended to their needs, like when she bandaged one with burnt feet. Obviously a camel shoe had come off or something.
shareWhere did you see the main character be cruel to animals?
shareHow about when she enslaved some camels and made them carry her *beep* across the land and also killed one?
shareI didn't see it as cruelty to animals, but as living the nomadic lifestyle, which is what she ended up spending the rest of her life involved with, at least as an observer. Camels are eminently domesticable, unlike many wild species, and clearly have played part in nomadic lifestyles foor centuries, probably millenia. It was no more cruel than any other use of animals, and that is a debatable question. Certainly she was unusually tender-hearted to all the animals in her care, not just her dogs.
shareSo do you think that all people who have horses are "enslaving animals"? Weird.
shareOP is an idiot. This film went WAY over his head.
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Watching the movie now. I can't remember a more (unintentionally) unlikable movie protagonist
shareI agree with the point you make about the film character of Robyn Davidson. I've read the book and have to admit she didn't come across as so anti - social there. I've a feeling it was played up that way a bit for the film.
As for the business about cruelty to animals ... just ridiculous. 🐭
Spot on. I was thinking the same. Poor dog and camels suffering and dying for one woman's folly. What a crock.
shareNo animal cruelty in the film.
No animal cruelty by Robin Davidson on her trek.
You are the one who needs therapy.
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