Review Of Australian Film 'Persuasive Techniques Correctly Dominion'

Juan Benavides Mrs. Fox Current World Problems March 22, 2024 How Dominion Uses Persuasive Techniques Correctly Dominion, a 2018 Australian documentary directed by Chris Delforce, tries to persuade viewers to see animals as equal and not kill them for food. In the introduction, the narrator gives a speech about an animal's worth and how it is only determined by how useful it is to humans. The next part of the film is divided into twenty sections, representing different animals. These sections start with a still of the animal, its name, and statistics on what they are used for and how many are killed by a country per year for human consumption. The majority of these sections include drone or hidden camera footage of how these animals are treated,

This would be the place to put up a source or sources because it is a video with text over it. The viewer might not even take the film seriously because no validity is behind these facts. No sources make these claims. The viewer might not know that these claims are valid because every source and reference is on their website. So while the validity is there, it is not included within the content of the film itself, which is a problem. Why could the film not include this to make it seem more credible? The credibility of the film Dominion is lackluster in the film, but not on the website. Credibility in the film helps draw in the viewer. The film used incredible emotion to persuade the audience. At the beginning of the film during the pig section, the narrator has this to say about the last step of the grueling experiences the pigs have to go through to meet their demise, “After they’ve bled out, pigs are dropped into a tank of scalding water to soften their skin and remove bristles and hair. Those who haven't been stunned or killed properly die by drowning”(19:44). This scene helps put into perspective the atrocities committed by the farm