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M time: the year of 2010
Location: a household specialized in slaughter in Matou Township, Zouping City, Shandong Province
Incident: slaughter pigs and shoot a documentary
When we are deeply touched, three philosophical questions always come into our minds: "Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going?" Despite the fact that we are unlikely to get definitive answers to these questions.
In 2010, I made a documentary about the whole process of slaughtering pigs by professional slaughters in rural China. It is almost impossible to slaughter pigs on an industrial scale in rural areas in China. The more achievable and widely adopted approaches are, when the pigs were growing to the weight that are fit for slaughter, farmers deliver pigs to professional butchers in their villages. This whole process, from delivering to slaughtering, is brutal and physically drained.
When life comes into the world, what is its mission? We humans may have specific aims, but I don't think those aims should be missions. 1.1. Does life mean the course from beginning to end? 1.2. What do we contribute in the course? 1.3. What do we leave behind when the course has ended? 1.4. Just being born, alive, and dying?
Is our life more superior to a pig? It is the mission, and the destiny, of a raised pig to provide energy to meet humans' need. That kind of mission and destiny are highly unified. 2.1. What is our mission? 2.2. Aren't most of us inferior to a pig? 2.3. Should mission and foreordination be unified?
Are the differences among lives unequal or differentiated? Every one is also very different, let alone the difference between humans and animals. 3.1. Is life really equal? 3.2. Is differentiation a disguise for inequality? 3.3. How should we ensure the equality of life?
Is there a difference of high or low in the ways of life coming into being and ending? Despite the fact that the answer to this question seems pretty clear, in real life, people have different emotions and feelings about birth and death, and sometimes conduct discussions and evaluations.
Everyone's answers to the above series of thoughts may not be exactly the same.
According to my limited personal life experience, all the problems about life are broken and messy. I think they are impossibly orderly and unified until the day we leave the world. Moreover, I firmly believe that both completing the mission and failing to complete the mission are perfect foreordination.
The reason why I think of these questions now, and release the documentary after 12 years time, is because I am looking forward to receiving as many answers as possible from a relative fair platform. At the same time, I sniped this documentary into short clips, casting it into NFT and publishing it on OpenSea. I'm hoping to get as many thoughts and reflections as possible through the interactions of selling and collecting my work.
There is a minor accident in the slaughter process in the documentary, but it is not intentional abuse. The animal in the documentary was not abused, on the contrary, it fulfilled its mission well.