Thursday, February 21, 2008

Fast Food Nation - Reflection

When the first time I heard about Mr. Loken said what is the movie about, I thought it’s going to be a disgusting movie. It’s about the fast food restaurant and the slaughterhouse. I thought the movie is simply showing many disgusting scenes of people killing the cows. After I watch the movie, I found out there are many aspects that the movie is trying to convey.
What stood out to me is when the guy who worked in the fast food restaurant spat into the hamburger. All of the sudden I was so grossed out by what he did. I was thinking if I’ve ever eaten other people’s saliva before? If I did, how disgusting was that? I think this scene points out the morality of people. People who work in restaurants or in any other place need the basic level of morality!
The movie also shows a big portion of laboring. The last scene when a new group of Mexican crossed the border, I feel sorry for them. I hope they rather not come to the U.S for jobs because they have great chance of getting injured or treated unequally. It was such a contradicting scene when the person who was responsible for picking up the Mexicans, gave the children fast foods.
I read an essay that Amy wrote in English class saying that some people who work in the slaughterhouse get mental problems. I believe it is so true that because they are in such a brutal environment for many hours. Being in a slaughterhouse can damage a person’s mental condition and will leave a mental scar that can never be fixed.

------------ the following paragraph is the Re-do---------
When I was about 7 years old, there was one time I saw my grand parents killing a chicken for the CNY meal. I was little, and I watched the whole killing process, I did not felt disgusting but "interesting". I didn't even think of that the chicken might suffer. Now, thinking back about that bloody scene, it was simply disgusting.
We discussed some of our opinions in the class about few weeks ago. I agree with what Ivy brought up --- the issue of women were forced to have sex in order to get a job. It was quite sad to see such things to happen. It made me wonder again about why women, in most of the cases, the target of sexual abuses?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

just watched Fast Food Nation, it's impactful 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.