Tigar Next Door is a documentary I found almost impossible to watch even though I know it is true. Can Man and Aminal live together is a question that comes to the fore with this detailed exploration of man with tigar in a civilized setting.
Stories of Man in the Animal's world are and have been numerous, particularly fasinating to the young. But Tigar next Door is not for the young. It is heart wrenching, powerful struggle to continue to house and care for Tigars in our personal space. hard to imagine but Tigars are the intimate relatives of our feline house pets (who also have never been fully domesticated but they are small so I guess it doesn't it's okay to breed them and sell them to hopeful prespective parents.
The scene which really upset me more than all others was that of the Tigars' skins being thrown, discarded into a heap, a pile like all those bodies the Nazti's desposed of in the same dehumnized callous fashion ie. one upon the other.
It was at that point, that image, that I knew this is not a film for me. But it is an important film, important that we explore the atrocities that we, members of this civilized country, put forth day after day without comment.
Director Camilla Calamandrei videotaping in the evidence storeroom at the US Fish and Wildlife office in Springfield, Illinois. Pelts, hides, skulls, gallbladders and other body parts were collected as evidence in a 18 month under cover investigation that led to the conviction of 16 men who were buying, selling and killing unwanted pet tigers and lions and then selling their meat and body parts. Photo Credit: Diane Zander.
DVD Release date: April 20th
Linda ZisesWBAI RAdio
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