Attempting an ethical perspective on the meat industry. Various people who work in the industry have their say. Can they justify killing animals?
Direction
Spaeth's patient observation lets workers indict themselves.
Editing
Juxtaposition of mundane banter with industrial violence.
Director
David Spaeth
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
German documentary tradition of 'Lehrstück' — didactic theater — lives in Spaeth's confrontational framing. The title's 'melodrama' isn't irony; it references the workers' performed justifications.
Several slaughterhouses initially granted access believing the film would celebrate agricultural labor. Their confusion during interviews — realizing the trap — becomes part of the text itself.
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