An undercover investigator risks everything by infiltrating an animal testing laboratory for over two years.
It will cut your breath short and urge you to act! Starting as conspiratorial, Undercover soon becomes a reality you wish it had never existed. But regardless of how much you wish or pray, that reality exists. Actually, this is the reality, and most people turn a blind eye to it because it is unbearable. It just adds to the endless list of the atrocities we have committed throughout our history. And, as usual, against living beings that can not defend themselves.
Writer/director Pablo de la Chica takes the docudrama path and builds it up for the first act. He introduces Carlota, explains the situation and deliberately holds most of the punches… until the glasses are on! And this is when you start realising what you have signed up for. Halfway there? You wish all staff would die the most horrible death.
There is no point in telling you how much you need to watch it or why. Cinematic techniques? Plenty! But there is no point in discussing them; the documentary is brilliant. What’s worth discussing is the heroine who risked everything and went in to expose them. What’s also worth discussing is the relatively short time it took for the incident to fade away and be forgotten, as well as the fact that nothing happened to the company, and the laws do not really protect animals. Animal suffering exists, and congratulations to everyone who risks and sacrifices everything to prevent that from happening, regardless of the outcome.
Following Food, Inc. (2008): https://kaygazpro.com/food-inc-2008/ and Earthlings (2005): https://kaygazpro.com/earthlings-2005/, this is the third one that moved me so much, and I decided to make a trilogy out of them. A video is coming where I will put them all together and analyse the effect of films like these on society. Stay tuned.
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