"Our Daily Bread"

About ten minutes into to the doc, I was like holy s*** there is no dialogue. I noted the length, an hour and a half, and I decided, I'll give it a go. Mesmerizing. Parts were a little slow, but it picked up at the end during the industrial slaughter sequence. All done in very good taste, considering the action.

Bypassing the human factor, Nikolaus Geyrhalter's provocative documentary offers an intensely clinical look at the machinery of industrial food production. Geyrhalter focuses his lens on high-tech aspects of agriculture, using a rich mix of film techniques to capture machines in action. Humans, animals and crops appear incidentally, with droning conveyor belts, automated crop dusters and other machinery in starring roles.

Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
"This documentary is an unblinking, often disturbing look at industrial food production from field to factory."

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
"The camera simply looks, with unflinching interest, as plants and animals are processed into the food we eat. It's up to the viewer to distinguish tastes of horror, compassion, and awe at the efficiency involved".

I gave it 4 stars (out of 5) on Netflix and noticed the two comments by reviewers above. The NYT reviewer expectantly uses the word "horror" to describe it. Anything to with industrial agriculture the NYT is "horror". At least it seems that way. Why? I don't know, because It's leftist-alternative politically correct to have that view? Without that view Manohla Dargis probably would be an NYT reviewer. And while I love the NYT - I read it daily - it's my home page - but sometimes it get to be too much.

But the other reviewer was right on. The doc leaves it "up to the viewer to distinguish tastes of horror, compassion, and awe". And there was a lot of AWE.