Upon starting Okja i was skeptical it was going to be anything more than a CGI super pig sob story. But it transformed into a journey that took a south Korean girl across the world to save her best friend from a horrible fate. While also exposing the horrible truths of what actually occurs in the real world today in regard to factory farming. It was a very politically charged movie.
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The Mirando corporation created a genetically altered pig and sent 26 of them around the world to be taken in and cared for the way that culture cares for its animals. Okja was raised in the mountains of south Korea. Okja is a female in the film and the audience grows to care for her more than any of the humans. She more resembles a cross between a pig and a hippo and grows to be the size of a small elephant. When the Mirando corporation takes Okja back to the united states to go through testing, it and the audience sees that its eventual fate is to be part of a mass genocide of all the super pigs that the corporation created.
Most of the other Super Pigs in the movie are deformed and sickly, pointing to the gross truth that most of our livestock in the real world also lives in terrible conditions.
I highly recommend watching this movie if you have 2 hours to commit to its full story.
Glad to hear you liked it. I've been waiting for this one and it's nice to see it finally come out.
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