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Originally Posted by Philleh  What about Apocalypse Now and Old Boy?
Hell, even E4's The Inbetweeners has aninal cruelty - the slow death of a fish in the first episode of season 2, yet they cut the fish abuse out of Ki-duk Kim's The Isle. 
They need to sort themselves out, maybe this will see that they remain consistent. |
The water buffalo scene in
Apocalypse Now isn't covered by the act because it was a ritual sacrifice that wasn't staged by Francis Ford Coppola and the rest of the crew -- they were filming something that would have happened anyway.
In
Oldboy, he eats a squid which is an invertebrate and therefore not covered by the Animals Act.
I haven't seen
The Inbetweeners, can't comment on that one, but have seen
The Isle (Seom) and found the way that fish were treated to be extremely difficult to watch, even if it was narratively important.
Just in these three instances, there appears to be a degree of consistency as they frown upon cruelty to vertebrate animals which was staged for the camera but allow filmmakers to document/record ritual sacrifice and mistreat invertebrates, which had covered by the Animals Act.