4th March 2012, 9:36 PM
That WHAT was a hoax exactly? The footage IN THE MOVIE? So someone broke in with footage that looks exactly like it belongs in the movie, slipped it into the film, and snuck out, and no one noticed? That's a pretty bold defense argument right there.
Heck the Japanese version has even worse stuff than in the US version. The evidence is for clear animal cruelty. Not the deaths, no, but to say we shouldn't be suspicious is to ignore the movie itself as evidence. I don't care about what some foreign agency said was going on. Japan doesn't have the best track record when it comes to animal abuse. Did 30 kittens get killed in the cliff scene? That's a specific claim we'd need a little more evidence for, but considering that we KNOW for a fact that a cat was clearly thrown off that cliff into some dangerous waters, it's suspicious enough for me to say they're the ones that need to explain themselves. The fact that the kitten is clearly different throughout the movie also raises some eyebrows.
At the very least, we have some clear evidence of animal cruelty in the form of the movie itself. At most, there's the unsettling but justified suspicion that some of those shots were deadly enough they very likely didn't get it in one take. Denying this is just an attempt to rescue a childhood memory.
Heck the Japanese version has even worse stuff than in the US version. The evidence is for clear animal cruelty. Not the deaths, no, but to say we shouldn't be suspicious is to ignore the movie itself as evidence. I don't care about what some foreign agency said was going on. Japan doesn't have the best track record when it comes to animal abuse. Did 30 kittens get killed in the cliff scene? That's a specific claim we'd need a little more evidence for, but considering that we KNOW for a fact that a cat was clearly thrown off that cliff into some dangerous waters, it's suspicious enough for me to say they're the ones that need to explain themselves. The fact that the kitten is clearly different throughout the movie also raises some eyebrows.
At the very least, we have some clear evidence of animal cruelty in the form of the movie itself. At most, there's the unsettling but justified suspicion that some of those shots were deadly enough they very likely didn't get it in one take. Denying this is just an attempt to rescue a childhood memory.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)