NR, 54 min.
Director/Writer: Mark Lewis
Featuring: Janet Bonney,
Karin Estrada, David Forrester, Clyde ‘Babe’ Gore, Ray Johnson, Elwynjohn ‘Bud’
Johnston, John Kogge, Harold ‘Doc’ Lloyd, Joseph Martinez, John Simak, Leslye
Simak, Pastor Joseph Tauer
Werner Herzog has called the
chicken one of the stupidest creatures on Earth. He hates chickens and isn’t
shy about it. He’s even featured the vile creatures in some of his films to
make negative points about his characters. I don’t believe Werner Herzog would
be a fan of the movie “The Natural History of the Chicken”. It is a movie that
celebrates the chicken through the very strange people who also celebrate them.
“The Natural History of the
Chicken” is hardly any sort of history of the birds at all. Perhaps the title
is a reference to Mark Lewis’s previous film “Cane Toads: An Unnatural History”,
which featured the exploding cane toad population on the continent of
Australia. The toads were introduced to the country as a natural pest control
measure for the country’s cane sugar crops but had no natural enemies on the
island continent, and so exploded in population. The film is a comical look at
the truly problematic issue of the toads and the strange people that study and
worship them. Lewis was recently inspired to produce a sequel in 3D.
“The Natural History of the
Chicken” is also a comical look at the people whose lives are influenced by
chickens in America. It is equally as fascinating and humorous as his “Cane
Toads” and is just as much of a must-see documentary. It explores stories of a
chicken who returns from the dead, a chicken who lives for years without a
head, a lady who keeps a chicken as a pet, a community forced into legal action
to stop a cock farm with 100 roosters, a pastor with an amazing tale about a
chicken who wants to be a mother, and even provides a few facts about chickens
along the way.
Watch the entire movie below.
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