The first film in the series, the Life of Dogs, was released in 1963, which set a precedent for a cruel documentary. The Life of a Dog, written by Gualtiero Jacopetti, a seditious journalist, and his companions Franco Prosperi and Paolo Cavara, shows us a series of unusual, ridiculous, scary, thorough and vague reports from the far end of the world: to celebrate Easter Friday, a group of Italians cut themselves with glass in a rural area of Calabria. French painter Yves Klein spilled ink with his "body brush"; a woman in New Guinea breast-fed pigs; trendy New Yorkers savoured insects in restaurants. In Jacopetti's eyes, the world is a strange and terrible place. The World Cruelty Strange Series is a direct display of world civilization, bringing us back to a lonely planet with no guarantees, safety guidance and political statements, and no more objective and deceptive concerns. the director's point of view is extremely exciting and out of common sense. This is...
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