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Gunda (2020)

Documentary | 93 minutes
3,36 94 votes

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 93 minuten

Country: Norway / United States

Directed by: Viktor Kosakovskiy

IMDb score: 7,1 (3.182)

Releasedate: 15 April 2021

Gunda plot

A number of animals on a farm are followed: A pig and her piglets, a number of cows and a chicken with one leg. The piglets soon grow up but remain faithful to their mother and follow her around the property. The sound of the animals is constantly present, but when the mother wakes up after a nap, she suddenly no longer hears her children.

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De filosoof

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A film that fits in with the renewed ecological awareness: we have come to see animals and nature as things that we are distant from, but anyone with a sharp eye or sensitive nature knows that we are connected to nature and that everything that lives – like the spider in your house or the bird in the grass – is fascinating to watch. In this film we simply look at farm animals – pigs, chickens and cows – which we usually only know as dead meat on our plates, but which turn out to be completely living creatures: in nature films we are used to seeing a lion grab an antelope and tears apart, but also the daily life of a piglet on the farm is - just like our life - full of drama, zest for life, struggle, violence and beauty and their actions and emotions themselves tell the story. Man, as the king of nature, is only the cruelest of all animals (whereby the slaughter of the animals is not shown to spare the viewer, but the desolate search of the sow for her kids is equally heartbreaking[/spoiler ]).

The film therefore offers nothing new and a visit to a farm can probably have the same effect, so that the film is perhaps mainly intended for city people who are alienated from nature and do not know where their food comes from, but it is good that awareness is being raised given and as said, watching life is always fascinating. I just don't know why the film was shot in black and white: with colors it might have been even more beautiful and powerful.

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james_cameron

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A pig and her piglets, a few cows and a chicken with one leg. That's about it in this documentary shot in beautiful black and white, without voice-over and without music. But with endlessly long takes that seem to stretch to infinity. A separate viewing experience. Certain shots are really beautiful and the ending is genuinely gripping, but other than that it's bite.

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eRCee

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Been mesmerized watching Gunda. Boring, I don't recognize that at all. It's like Ik Doe Difficult says: because of the tranquility and closeness you are forced to perceive and experience animal life in a different way than you are used to. It is striking how much of the behavior is recognizable, how easily you understand what is going on in the heads of cow, chicken and pig, without the film being really manipulative in that regard. Wonderful how such a leg of a chicken moves, that tap against the fence immediately, the curiosity, how that cow allows herself to be caressed by the long grass and, as if in a daze, enjoys all the colours, smells and tastes. Gunda consists of about five to seven long sequences. I did notice that I always found it a bit too long per sequence. Just too long those chickens, that feeding the piglets or the image of the cows. But as a film, Gunda is not too long and the ending sequence is impressive. In addition to the beautiful imagery, there is also a leading role for the sound. You are in the middle of natural life. Very good.

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