SPOILERS BELOW!!
I agree that one recurring theme involved the unpredictability of animals,
their failure to do what their “masters“ want them to do. OK, animals are
unpredictable, even domesticated ones like the horse. Don’t we all know
that? So maybe we learned something more insightful about this from the
movie? What exactly? Are we guilty of something? We saw that animals are
unpredictable and that fact just lay there.
Another recurring theme involved the willingness of people to chase fame at
any cost. The motorcyclist from TMZ was lying there incapacitated and all
he could think about was getting a good camera shot of his body in the
road. The main characters wanted to impress Oprah. The amusement park owner
clung to his childhood fame and was willing to put innocent lives in danger
in hopes of reclaiming it. The documentarian was so obsessed with
impressing the world with a shot of something no one had ever seen before
that he was willing to be gobbled up. Are people who chase fame guilty of
something? What exactly? Should people not chase fame? Should they be
punished for it as they were in this movie? We saw that people chase fame,
yes they do indeed, and that fact just lay there.
But I did enjoy the movie and I do enjoy thinking about it. It’s just that
the more I think about it, the shallower and less cohesive it seems.