Fast Food Nation (2006)
Directed by Richard Linklater
A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food.
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As with his fantastic 2006 monster mash-up The Host, Bong knows how to sneak a bigger allegorical message into his manic whirligig celluloid contraption—Okja feels like Fast Food Nation as directed by Terry Gilliam with The Smiths’ Meat is Murder playing on the soundtrack.
Okja is basically an R-rated kids' movie that remains exciting and engaging enough throughout, with brutal images of animal slaughtering that will both remind the audience of Fast Food Nation and perhaps even convince them to turn vegetarian.
What begins as a tranquil buddy movie finishes up in the blood-soaked slaughterhouse where Okja is due to end her days; it’s as though My Neighbour Totoro had morphed into Fast Food Nation.
While it starts with the gentle human-animal dynamics of “Babe,” it eventually arrives at the polemics of “Fast Food Nation,” revealing a movie eager to please and editorialize at the same time.
The climactic slaughterhouse scene reaches beyond the urgency of Upton Sinclairs The Jungle and Eric Schlossers Fast Food Nation .
On the other, Richard Linklater turned Eric Schlosser's fascinating nonfiction book Fast Food Nation and turned it into a star-laden social justice drama; even the presence of Bruce Willis and Ethan Hawke couldn't take its grosses far past $2 million worldwide.