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Okja - Review


     This is a very different movie, I saw the poster and thought it would be like a Hayao Miyazaki movie but I was so wrong. It began sort of like Charlie In The Chocolate Factory, then became The Jungle Book, later it was Grave Of The Fireflies and ended at a very new narrative.
 
     It is a movie about a girl who raises a pig (giant pig called the Super pig, created to end world hunger) with her grandfather in the mountains of South Korea. The pig is basically an experiment and must be returned after ten years but the girl doesn't know that. Through out the movie she tries to get her friend back.

     From This Point Onward There may Be Spoilers!

    This movie raises so many questions that are already being asked but no one really cares. All those people who have raised pets must know this, that each animal develops its own personality. They feel happy, sad and angry just like people do but when it comes to slaughtering them they are nothing but products. I am not a vegetarian but I wish to be. Because I really do agree with the narrative that animals need to be treated better and that we shouldn't gobble them down just because they don't speak the way we do. Yes animals eat each other but then again they don't think like us. 
     (If you haven't seen the movie don't read this paragraph) In the end when the little girl gets her piggy back, literally (no puns intended), she walks away through a sea of other piggies in line to be served up on the cutting board, it seems so unfair and hypocritical. But that's a pinch of reality anything other then that would not have left us with a deep impact. 
     Besides raising awareness, this movie has an amazing cast, it is hard to tell if its a Korean movie or a Hollywood blockbuster. It includes various stars from movies and Television series. I purposefully didn't read any reviews or watch the trailer for this one, because I saw the poster and knew it in my heart that this would be an awesome experience. May be that's why I was surprised till the very end. My favorites are listed below:

Tilda Swinton from Narnia (The Main Witch!)
Shirley Henderson from Harry Potter (Yeah! Moaning Myrtle)
Paul Dano from Swiss Army Man (If you haven't seen this movie you don't know what farts really stand for!)
Giancarli Esposito From Breaking Bad (Yup Gus Fring the chicken restaurant guy, who has half his face blown off!)
Steven Yeun From The Walking Dead (I still haven't gotten over Glenn's death)

Doesn't matter if you are an adult,child, herbivore or an omnivore this movie is a must watch for everyone. It is a wake up call for all the things that we have become so desensitized to because of industrialization and it's all packed up in little girls journey to get her friend back.  

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