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Closely Observed Trains

Closely Observed Trains (Closely Watched Trains/Ostre sledované vlaky). Jiří Menzel, 1966.
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Edition screened: Included on Arrow Blu-ray, released 2015. Czech language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 93 minutes.

Summary: Rabbit killing and skinning.
Details:
1) A large rabbit screams at 14:26 as he is removed from his hutch and held upside-down. He is clubbed at 14:40 and we see him suspended with blood around his face  14:50-14:58.
2) Rabbit nailed to a wooden fence and being skinned, 1:02:04-1:02:10.
3) A woman calmly force-feeds a goose by hand in her cottage, 1:13:41-1:16:00. The goose certainly is not eating voluntarily, but the scene seems more perverse than violent if you don’t understand why she is doing this.

@ BL