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Our Daily Bread
No narration, no music, no comment — just the vast, silent machinery that turns living things into food, filmed so beautifully you cannot look away from what you would rather not see.
There is no narration, no music, no permission — only machinery and the sustained, silent observation of industrial killing, so every feeling you have is one you generate yourself. The wide, symmetrical, beautifully lit compositions sit in unbearable tension with what they contain, leaving the body unsure how to metabolise what the eyes are given. No valve ever opens; the film ends exactly as it began, and its images resurface at your own dinner table for days.
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FAQ
Is it a nature or food documentary?
It's a documentary about industrial food production, but it never explains or lectures — it simply shows, and lets the images do something explanation never could.
Is it hard to watch?
Parts of it are, especially the slaughter sequences. It doesn't sensationalise anything; the calm is exactly what makes it stay with you.