Fast Food Nation and Teaching Seminar
Reading about animal cruelty on BitchY's blog and I recalled this movie I watched on Saturday. By the way, this is Samuel from my camp. Despite being in different platoons and hardly having a chance to meet up, we click pretty well. There are many ppl in my camp who I hope to contact again but I doubt there's much possibility.
Before the movie, I went from my morning tut to the teaching seminar in Orchard Hotel. That place was freaking out of the way from an MRT and obscurely hidden on the outskirts of Orchard Rd. Luckily the seminar accepts 20min late-comers. I have been wanting to go to this seminar for the past 5 yrs. Can u believe it???? I missed all the past 5 seminars because of army commitments and prior appointments. Its quite a miracle that I can squeeze time from my current hectic schedule to rush down for this.
The seminar was pretty irrelevant at the start, abt mid-career executives joining the teaching job. Thus I caught forty winks to catch up on lost sleep. Its quite a relief that I awoke just in time to catch the talk on NIE training and admission procedures. One gem I discovered during the seminar will be that there is no maximum cap on the Teaching Awards. As long as one has the passion, the award will be given. I desperately need the award for my school fees because Im poor and I really think that I deserve one. If I do not get it, I may really punch the wall.
Anyway I do not wish to bore readers with my career endeavour thus I will get on to Fast Food Nation.
I must state that the book is fantastic but the movie was unsatisfactory. The movie Fast Food Nation was going in circles initially. It was pretty incomprehensible initially since they hardly characterised the cast and assumed that the viewer is omniscient and understands what the cast is doing. There was constant toggling between the lives of the workers and the employers. Irritating switches. Quite an overkill of toggling. The intention of the movie was that fast food is pretty superficial, with the use of chemicals to hoodwink our taste buds. Also many safety regulations were defied thus unhygenic, literally bloody and shitty food was served. The intention of the movie wasnt subtle enough and u can see the intention lying around explicitly. The two seconds of porn was pretty redundant. It was only towards the end that the scenes became gut-wrenching. We actually saw how cows got slaughtered and mutilated with the blood spewing all over. Luckily, I have a strong appetite, otherwise I would have starved during dinner.
I did not give high marks for this movie. Maybe its due to the fact that I sat in the front rows. My aching neck undermined my movie experience and I was pretty pissed half the time. I gave it a maximum of 3 (maybe its because I also advocate the intention and the gut-wrenching scenes really got its point thru) but I think it probably deserved less. I really contemplated not eating beef unless my craving is overwhelming. If not for the need of protein, I will not eat chicken and fish either. Now I know why vegetarians exist.
Before the movie, I went from my morning tut to the teaching seminar in Orchard Hotel. That place was freaking out of the way from an MRT and obscurely hidden on the outskirts of Orchard Rd. Luckily the seminar accepts 20min late-comers. I have been wanting to go to this seminar for the past 5 yrs. Can u believe it???? I missed all the past 5 seminars because of army commitments and prior appointments. Its quite a miracle that I can squeeze time from my current hectic schedule to rush down for this.
The seminar was pretty irrelevant at the start, abt mid-career executives joining the teaching job. Thus I caught forty winks to catch up on lost sleep. Its quite a relief that I awoke just in time to catch the talk on NIE training and admission procedures. One gem I discovered during the seminar will be that there is no maximum cap on the Teaching Awards. As long as one has the passion, the award will be given. I desperately need the award for my school fees because Im poor and I really think that I deserve one. If I do not get it, I may really punch the wall.
Anyway I do not wish to bore readers with my career endeavour thus I will get on to Fast Food Nation.
I must state that the book is fantastic but the movie was unsatisfactory. The movie Fast Food Nation was going in circles initially. It was pretty incomprehensible initially since they hardly characterised the cast and assumed that the viewer is omniscient and understands what the cast is doing. There was constant toggling between the lives of the workers and the employers. Irritating switches. Quite an overkill of toggling. The intention of the movie was that fast food is pretty superficial, with the use of chemicals to hoodwink our taste buds. Also many safety regulations were defied thus unhygenic, literally bloody and shitty food was served. The intention of the movie wasnt subtle enough and u can see the intention lying around explicitly. The two seconds of porn was pretty redundant. It was only towards the end that the scenes became gut-wrenching. We actually saw how cows got slaughtered and mutilated with the blood spewing all over. Luckily, I have a strong appetite, otherwise I would have starved during dinner.
I did not give high marks for this movie. Maybe its due to the fact that I sat in the front rows. My aching neck undermined my movie experience and I was pretty pissed half the time. I gave it a maximum of 3 (maybe its because I also advocate the intention and the gut-wrenching scenes really got its point thru) but I think it probably deserved less. I really contemplated not eating beef unless my craving is overwhelming. If not for the need of protein, I will not eat chicken and fish either. Now I know why vegetarians exist.
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