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To be disappointed Don’t F*** With Cats isn’t about cats?

55 replies

StraightenUpAndFryRight · 02/01/2020 19:53

‘Twas gutted.

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Vilanelle · 02/01/2020 20:34

A friend recommended it when I asked for Netflix suggestions. I had no idea what it was about and whilst they didnt show the torture, it showed the cats seconds before the torture which scarred me.

FaFoutis · 02/01/2020 20:36

Swearing and choosing to watching reconstructions of real murders for entertainment are not equivalent things.

Dustarr73 · 02/01/2020 20:38

Swearing and choosing to watching reconstructions of real murders for entertainment are not equivalent things.

Which is why,you read the reviews before watching.Not blindly record it for your kids to watch

FizzyIce · 02/01/2020 20:39

I watch all of the true crime docs but glad for this thread as can’t watch anything to do with animal cruelty.
I know that seems strange considering what some of these people do to humans but animals is just another level of horrible

FaFoutis · 02/01/2020 20:40

I know, I have a new TV and not a clue how to use it (where are the reviews?). I always watch a bit before exposing children to my stupid choices. 3 seconds was enough for this one.

SharkasticBitch · 02/01/2020 20:44

I got about 10 mins in before the first scenes of two kittens sat looking cute popped up.

Fearing what would happen next, I noped the hell out of there and won't go back.

MissPepper8 · 02/01/2020 20:45

Off topic but I could of done without watching it.. I just have no words how a person could do what he did. What he did to that man also, filming it all can't remember if it was fully disclosed on the documentary what he did.

Poor man's family to have that video out there.

PositiveVibez · 02/01/2020 22:44

I was shocked by it all. But more so by the fact that when the man was murdered with an ice pick and dismembered, people had no qualms speaking in-depth about it, but when it came to the animals, they couldn't hold their shit together.

Gaelforce · 02/01/2020 22:59

I watched it - but closed my eyes and hummed when the horrible bits came on. My DH told me when it was 'safe' to resume watching. I do that with all horrible stuff.
I thought it was very good - agree with Positive about the interviewees crumbling when speaking about the animals. Really liked the computer 'nerds' determination.

Fatted · 02/01/2020 23:06

@PositiveVibez that's exactly how I feel about it.

The most upsetting part for me was the part when the murder victims friend said that he found out his friend had died from watching the video of his murder online. And that he was able to identify the deceased from seeing his decapitated head.

But, the poor little fluffy cats.....

SharkasticBitch · 02/01/2020 23:14

Isn't that literally the point of the documentary title?

I suspect there is some evolutionary reason for it - probably linked to the fact the pet animals have been selectively bred for physical traits that promote the same care response as human babies.

FuriousFlannels · 02/01/2020 23:23

I cry at adverts but no longer cry over the death of a family member who went a few years ago.

Does that mean I feel more for a lonely dragon in an advert than the loss of family? Of course it doesn't.

What people cry at does not have a direct link to how disturbing, tragic or emotional they find it.

Otherwise we might surmise that millions of caring and rational humans consider Ghost more tragic than the news.

user1473878824 · 03/01/2020 00:33

@FaFoutis A new TV stops you seeing the word Fuck in the title so you can’t work out it’s not appropriate for a nine year old?

FizzyIce · 03/01/2020 08:59

I think that’s more about the fact that animals ,especially very young ones can’t defend themselves or any understanding of what’s happening . The same if it were small children /babies

FizzyIce · 03/01/2020 09:00

The above was to @PositiveVibez

FaFoutis · 05/01/2020 12:09

Calm down user. It said F*
And swearing doesn't hurt anybody.

sundayfishfinger · 14/01/2020 10:18

I'm very late to watching this but finished it yesterday.

I kind of wish I hadn't watched it as it's left a horrid mark on my soul afterwards of the people there are in this World.

I hated how she looked down the camera at the end and addressed the audience! Scared me!!

I wanted them to ask the Canadian Police on camera why they had ignored the messages for so long? The group did try and flag this up before a person had been harmed (that we know of.)

Highonpotandused · 14/01/2020 10:19

Could we please have a Spoiler Alert? That was on my watch list.

Nillynally · 14/01/2020 10:22

I find it very interesting that it's the cats everyone is so horrified at. I fast forwarded through all those bits and I'm not even a cat lover! but the death of a man with a screw driver? meh. Awful really!

UYScuti · 14/01/2020 10:25

It was nothing like I thought it would be 😳

UndomesticHousewife · 14/01/2020 10:25

Well it was about cats. It started because of the cats and then it went just off the scale weird and very disturbing.

Urkiddingright · 14/01/2020 10:27

I personally think the documentary is exactly what the killer would’ve wanted. I bet he loves the fact millions of people around the world have seen it, he wanted celebrity status and to him he’s probably achieved it.

The internet fanatics were just total nut jobs and his poor Mother was utterly delusional. The whole documentary was quite tasteless imo.

MonstranceClock · 14/01/2020 10:31

I thought it was a great documentary. Fascinating to see how people come together and I best so much time into something the police would never touch. If it wasn’t for them, Jun Lin probably would never have had his justice.
Also so gross how even on this thread, people care more about the cats than the man who was brutally murdered.

Zenithbear · 14/01/2020 10:33

It was about those poor cats at the start, then evolved as stories do. Me and dp found it harrowing and had to keep looking away but still managed to watch it to the end to see the bastard caught.

UYScuti · 14/01/2020 10:49

I found it fascinating and disturbing in roughly equal measure

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