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Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming! To the rhythm of conveyor belts and immense machines, Nikolaus Getrhalter's award-winning film looks without commenting or flinching into the places where food is produced: monumental spaces, surreal landscapes and bizarre sounds - a cold, industrial environment which leaves little space for individualism. People, animals, crops and machines play a supporting role in the logistics of this system which provides our society's sustenance. Our Daily Bread is food for thought that just may make you change how and what you eat ....
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
"an unblinking, often disturbing look at industrial food production from field to factory. If we could see the living animal and not just the supermarket package, see the labor and the waste, we might change how and what we eat. "
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hi-tech grub,
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This review is from: Our Daily Bread (DVD)
I found this a highly unusual and visually fascinating documentary about primary food production, both animal and vegetable. The lack of any sort of commentary initially annoyed me because so much of what is shown raises the question: what's going on here but after a while I found I was settling down to the rhythm of the editing. The way director Geyrhalter places the camera and then just lets it roll will grow on you. Even where there is some fast machinery the shot is invariably a static one of the equipment.The production looks at fruit and vegetable production and collection, animal husbandry of chickens, cows, pigs and nicely I thought, fish farming plus a visit to a salt mine. The most eye opening thing to me was the amount of mechanization involved in food production though it seemed that the equipment had been designed to work most efficiently when the fruit, animals or fish were standard sizes. Despite the huge investment in equipment on these European farms (or plants) it was still cost effective to employ shift-workers. There are some quirky scenes: several of workers having a break, eating or having a cigarette; spraying everything in a slaughter house with some sort of foam (a detergent maybe) digging small holes in mounts on a field and either planting or collecting something. I would have thought an occasional black strip across the bottom of the screen with a white caption would not have hurt the integrity of the movie and helped the viewer. Despite what others might say I found nothing shocking in the movie. This usually refers to animal slaughter but it is done in a simple straightforward way with machinery doing most of the work and rather intriguingly everything shown involving animals is done at a reasonable speed in these factories. The movie concentrates on primary food production and not the industrial production of processed food...maybe that's Geyrhalter's next assignment. Overall a very impressive and visually remarkable look at the subject and one of those documentaries that is certainly worth seeing more than once.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Food Industrial,
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This review is from: Our Daily Bread (DVD)
This is a fabulous documentary, but not for the squeamish. Be prepared for graphic violence against livestock and plants, in a totally matter of fact way.This is the first documentary I have ever seen without commentary and without music. But any music would have been inadequate to the subject. Any commentary would have lessened the impact of the amazing cinematography. And impact there is. I watched this with a small audience of 10-12 friends, mostly city folk, on a large-screen TV. We were mesmerised. Two people had to leave the room during the more graphic episodes. Those who have actually gutted a deer or rabbit, or killed a turkey won't have the same problem. For city folk, this is a life-changing film. The movie depicts large-scale industrial farming for meat and vegetables. Each scenario begins with a still shot that would win photography prizes, and then the action begins. Machines and human workers do their usual jobs of slaughtering or emasculating animals on assembly lines, or eviscerating pigs, or weeding peppers, or spraying fields. No fancy pans, no slow motion, just straightforward filming with usually a static camera. Then the workers go to lunch, often along very similar corridors as the animals go to slaughter. And they eat their sandwiches (the only bread in the movie) and have banal everyday conversations in German, Dutch, Arabic, or French. Our Daily Bread shows you where your food comes from and how it is grown, harvested, and prepared before being sold in its pretty cellophane packages. You will never see your lunch in quite the same way.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very powerful message. A must see.,
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This review is from: Our Daily Bread (DVD)
This dvd was very different from all the others. It's lack of words actually gave it more credibility. At first I became a little uncomfortable with no voice. I guess that just shows us how conditioned we are. I quickly became more aware of what I was seeing rather than being absorbed by words. This was one of the most powerful dvd's I have seen to date.
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