The Ghosts in Our Machine

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Audience Member A movie about a photographer exposing animal abusers and animal abuse culture. She goes fearlessly into the industry, the farms and gets high quality and publishable photos for the cause. The relief for her is the animals at the sanctuaries and taking photos of them. There are so many shots, so many different kinds of animals suffering in the movie. I got a bit short of breath while watching, got all sorts of terrible memories revisited and cried out. This shouldn't be happening and this shouldn't be hidden. It is wild how we hate ourselves as a society so much that we let this happen and continue. People get focused over what is cringe and what is lame so much, they go to musicians and cool artists and leave hate comments, death threats all the time if they challenge the industry. But that kind of thing isn't even related to the animal abuse industry. Why do people have so much time to hate on things that are not even hateable? If they focus on such minute things and not the important ones like this then we truly live in a hopeless hell. I find that other reviews on here are trying to find excuses to hate on this movie, methods are not okay? Emotional manipulation? It’s like we are not on real emotional manipulation 24/7. This is actual emotion, this is real, this is about actual lives that suffer, it is not CGI, it’s not special effects. It is made for the purpose to save lives that are even now currently being killed and abused in the most creative ways mankind could ever. I wish people would actually focus on the environment, themselves and the healt, but they don’t even do that. What the hell are our priorities? Why are we not concerned about this? Why do we fear the truth so much that others have to die for it? If we all had more bravery we wouldn’t need to live in a dystopia, we could actually focus on making the world a better place and we could make and consume entertainment without any guilt. Why is our environment dominated by guilt? I want everyone to watch movies like this, read books like this and share them. It is not a matter of personal taste or what you like. This is lives at stake and until they are saved, the quality of this movie, even though I think it is a legit good movie, doesn’t even matter. The message is so powerful that the movie should be promoted regardless of aesthetics. I don’t want to live in a world where sad animal eyes haunt us at every corner. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/10/24 Full Review Audience Member The best documentary movie I've seen about something that is really important - our communication with animals and the industry we are forced to deal everyday in our life's. A truly revolutionary Movie that makes you re-think your ideals of life and start being angry at the people who are creating this so-called industry. The most interesting thing for me was the compassion and how the movie strays from it but focus on the communication and what should be right in terms of life. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member I thank Liz and Jo-Anne for doing this documentary. This clearly represents the exploitation of our animals, worldwide. A case is quietly made, through Jo-Anne's images to STOP our actions of cruelty towards animals. A lot of this is unneeded and just plain cruel (i.e. fur farms). The images and film are hard to watch, but it's important that this message is spread in order to bring about change on a global scale. Thank you ladies. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Saw The Ghosts in Our Machine last night.Compelling. Haunting. Disturbing. Inspiring. Brave photographer Jo-Anne McArthur and visionary film maker Liz Marshall expose the clandestine and pervasive industry that commits horrific abuses against those animals whom we as a society view as commodities: whether to eat, wear, or otherwise exploit. In the film, we see the faces of these animals and, as we look into their eyes, a glimpse into their souls. See this film. It will inspire you to look into your own soul. And help. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Beautiful... you can tell there is incredible passion behind this much needed film. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Excellent. Some reviewers have criticized the documentary because it doesn't give a more broad approach to the issues of animal cruelty and exploitation, but that's clearly not the intent or point of this film. It's a glimpse of an artist who devotes her life to the invisible suffering of countless animals along with footage of a sanctuary where animals live in peace, dignity and kindness. The debate exists within the visuals. As with all art or any great debate, show me don't tell me. We don't need a voice over or a debate on whether the cruelty is acceptable, for medical research or any reason. That debate exists already in many films & videos and countless books. The power here is in the images and the story of one person who chooses not to ignore animal cruelty in her life and in her art. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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