I get my hands on this Vegan targeted, an animal-friendly short film that delivers a dark and twisted slant on our day to day food consumption. Here’s my Deep Fried Fingers short film review.
Now I must stress before I review this film that I am a meat-eater.
I will always be a meat-eater and that’s the plain and simple fact of it.
Judge as you will but I will not change.
Whether that reflects as a bias within this review is subjective but I’m going to take as neutral a stance as I can possibly take given my food consumption habits.
Deep-Fried Fingers completely twists the narrative on its head as instead of animals being killed for human consumption the tables are turned so that humans are the dish of the day for animals just hungry for a bite.
Whilst eating meat is a choice there’s no denying the general mistreatment of animals before they become food on many of our plates.
A blissful ignorance that even us meat-eaters are all guilty of and whilst I know it occurs it still doesn’t stop me from partaking in a nice burger or steak.
I taste many a vegan meal or dish and I instantly know it’s vegan when no flavour, taste or general enjoyment exudes from its bland texture or taste.
Don’t mind me. I’m just waving to my un-bias review fly elegantly out of the window before me.
Rather than watching a slaughterhouse documentary or the like, Deep Friend Fingers gives us a retro-style animated short that is equal parts funny but equally educational about the message it is trying to convey.
Straight into the deep end it gets right to the point as a man is tortured to death before being served up to a table of animals.
When one of the animals refuses to eat the human and instead opts for a salad an awkward exchange occurs as the group discuss the morality of sampling the humans.
The short ends with a dish being returned before being thrown away.
A short but sharp message of animals that have been slaughtered to be eaten only for them to be thrown away.
A cruel message but naturally being a meat eater I’d be contradicting myself if I said it had an effect on me.
It didn’t.
I had a ham joint for dinner and a chicken curry the day after I wrote this review.
Is that my blissful ignorance of the fact?
No.
I just like meat and I refuse to have people trying to force their perspectives on me.
I’m a stubborn git and the more someone tries to put their beliefs on me the more I’ll go out of my way to defy them.
If you want to not eat meat, then I’m all for it just don’t try to convince me to think like you or act like you.
I’m my own person, I make my own choices and I’ll continue to do so.
Director Daniel Greenway puts us in an alternative position and delivers a real and straight to the point message that will resonate with its intended audience.
Whilst I thought the animation was a little too static in times it took nothing away from the narrative or the wonderful sound design.
A great debut short film that is sure to turn some heads.
Deep-Fried Fingers short film review by Sean Evans
Our Rating
Summary
A wonderfully smart and hard hitting short film that is wonderfully crafted and will resonate loudly with the audience its intended for.
