Originally posted by carole
I have to say Crickit I find your attitude very complacent, yes this movie was made some years ago,however if the facts are that the animals were indeed mis-treated, and I AGREE with you that we should be stating facts/not maybe's, then indeed telling everyone just to take a chill pill,and that it's only a movie, kinda rubs me up the wrong way, because if everyone took that attitude, nothing would ever chance in our society, burying our head in the sand , does not change anything, it's people like Cass, who really can make a difference, by kicking up a stink about this particular movie may mean no more are made like that.
YES it maybe too late for this movie, but not for those to come.

Would be nice to know the complete facts for sure, but I think the fact that people on PT are getting a tad emotional and upset that maybe this movie did include abuse of animals is a positive step in the right direction, it has made me think ,next time I watch an animal story ,and not necessarily sit on my butt and do nothing about what I see if it expoilts animals in anyway.

It reminds me of the time a local circus was visiting and the dogs were in cages out in the hot sun, I did not just sit there and do nothing, I picked up the phone and reported it.

Well enough said, this is purely my opinion.
P.S I have to add I find this a very happy place to be, sorry you don't, this is not an argument, merely a debate with varied opinions.
Carole, it's okay that you find my post to be complacent, because some of it was. I'm not telling people to roll over and ignore stuff that they see in movies or real life that might harm animals. I was just pointing out that it's to late to do anything about this particular movie due to the fact that it's over 20 years old, and was made in a foreign country, so it would be a good idea for people to just relax before someone says something that they don't mean.

The reason I did my post was NOT to tell people to just totally forget what could have happened. It was more to get people to stop making assumptions about how the animals were treated in a country they've never been to that has different cultural values. And a decade where things like this were still looked on differently then they are today.

Did anyone stop to think that maybe the parts that were edited out of the American version of the movie weren't parts that they would find to gruesome but maybe parts that an american audience wouldn't understand from a cultural aspect? I personally have seen plenty of Japanese and movies from other Asian countries and the things that they have in their movies can be very confusing for one who doesn't understand how the country functions or the different customs that they use. True a couple of the movies I've seen have been banned in North America due to the violence in them but those were movies that were considered to be contraversial there as well.

Oh and before I forget I do find the board to be a happy place. My comment was more of a joke...that's my type of sense of humor, those who know me can probably relate to that.