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“Movie Okja”

Introduction

"Okja" is the heartwarming tale of a girl and her giant mutant pig, brought to life through a mix of
digital effects and puppetry that makes a nonexistent beast seem as real. It is also the tale of animal
rights activists doing battle with Mirando corporation that wants to turn said pig, allegedly the cutest
in a batch whipped up by genetic scientists, into a poster animal for a revolutionary line of meat
products. These two modes might seem incompatible. But as overseen by the great South Korean
director Bong Joon-ho ("Snowpiercer," "The Host"), they mesh in a work of melancholy enchantment,
by turns sweet, funny, scary, sad, and—in the manner of all good science fiction movies—thought-
provoking.

Synopsis

The heroine is a South Korean farm girl named Mija (An Seo-hyn), an orphan who lives with her
grandfather Heebong (Byun Hee-bong) in a mountainous stretch of rainforest. Her constant
companion is the title character, Okja, a pig with the rounded snout and leathery skin of a
hippopotamus, a soft pink belly, and trusting eyes. Okja loves Mija and Mija loves Okja, but their
sacred bond is governed by a ticking clock. As revealed in an opening flashback, Lucy Mirando
(Tilda Swinton), the CEO of the Mirando Corporation, seeded the world with prototype pigs and
announced that when they'd all spent ten years growing to maturity, the company would choose the
finest environment in which to raise them, the better to provide the world with cheap but high-quality
meat and meat products. The pigs were presented to the media as a "discovery" even though they were
devised in Mirando's labs. This is one of many deceptions labeled "little white lies" by Lucy. They are
meant to bamboozle animal rights activists and protestors against genetically modified organisms
(GMOs).

When the ten year mark arrives, Mija's grandfather tells her that he had to turn Okja over to the
company, but that she can take solace in his compensatory gift to her, a tiny gold pig. Mija and Okja's
separation kicks off a story that follows the pig from South Korea to New York City and
(parenthetically) to a plant near Paramus, New Jersey, where hundreds of other prototype pigs are
kept for experimentation and eventual slaughter. Members of the Animal Liberation Federation (ALF,
just like the sitcom alien) briefly kidnap Okja and fit her with a camera that they hope will expose the
company's animal rights abuses.

Conclusion

This movie discusses the ethics of meat consumption, where it shows animal cruelty, and this film is
created for kids, but it turn out it needs a parental guidance in watching this film due in having the
animal cruelty content.

This movie also emphasis the animal welfare republic act no.8485 “It is the purpose of this Act to
protect and promote the welfare of all animals in the Philippines by supervising and regulating the
establishment and operations of all facilities utilized for breeding, maintaining, keeping, treating or
training of all animals either as objects of trade or as household pets.” .
It also show what An animal rights activist is “someone who believes in justice for all animals. They
don't condone animal testing, factory farming, and other systemic mistreatment of animals, nor do
they believe in using harsh animal training methods or other pursuits that cause animals pain or
discomfort”.

This movie also implies Best Friends Come in All Shapes and Sizes Despite Okja being hundreds of
pounds bigger than Mija and of an entirely different species, just like we have seen with other inter-
species friendships, best friends come in all shapes and sizes.

I was amaze with Mija, because she really follow Okja even what it takes from her, she give love to a
pet without expecting any in return, and always make way to save Okja, and she even use/spend all
her money just to bring back Okja to her “she simply shows that money/treasures/any luxurious things
cannot accompany us to heaven, but a good memories always did”.

This movie also gives me stress watching it makes me think about some of those meat factory owners
if they really do such thing as Lucy Mirando did in the movie.

This movie also show how the animal rights activist feels and could be done when there is animal
abuse, maybe in real life scenario they do the same thing as what the animal rights activist did in the
movie.

I think the movie highlights the issue of the current society where (1) we take things for granted, and
(2) money/ business are main priority. The relationship between Okja and Mija (the caretaker) is
sacred and deep. To Mija, Okja is more than a family. She would do anything to bring Okja back
home. We can see the determination of this little girl, going through everything from rebelling against
her grandfather to obeying the Miranda Corp’s order, she just want to keep Okja safe and alive.

Business learning in this movie is to know the person you are dealing with, money or business is the
main priority, take things for granted, always think of hypothesis, create some advertisement to let the
people know your product, give a free sample/taste to let them know your product and they going to
buy if they liked it, always in the competition, site the scope and limitation of your product, know
what people wants and needs, always generate a statistical measure in every location to gather
information to calculate what you may offer to a certain location to put up business or simply create a
feasibilities study to gather data before putting up a business in a certain area, learn the law concerned
with the business.