Swept Away (Wertmüller)

Swept Away (Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto). Lina Wertmüller, 1974.
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Edition screened: Koch Lorber DVD, released 2006. Italian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 114 minutes.

Summary: Hunting violence in a reasonable context.

Details:

1) A sardine is caught, cleaned and eaten, at 33:20.

2) A lobster is brought up from the ocean at 47:30 and we see cooking preparation, but no actual killing or boiling.

3) At 1:01:30 several real fish are shown impaled on sticks during a brief fishing scene.

4) At 1:14:00 a rabbit is caught in a snare, and 30 seconds later comes a brief but explicit scene of it being skinned. At 1:15:00 we see the skinned body impaled on a spit.

5) At 1:33:30 eggs are taken from a nesting mother bird.

6) At 1:36:38 in the final scene, a character pulls a horse too high up on its reigns and the horse falls backwards onto its back.

Respectful hunting in a genuine survival context might be one of the least offensive types of animal violence. The obstacles in getting through this film are the shouting vacationers of the opening scene and the embarrassing “Me Tarzan, you Jane” dialogue that fills the middle section, more than the brief hunting depictions.