Packet 10: Tossup 20

A 2000 film titled for this sort of place made Venice Film Festival audiences vomit and faint due to scenes of animal cruelty and suicides with fishhooks, resulting in criticism (15[1])of its director, Kim Ki-duk. The text “God doesn’t exist” opens a documentary titled for this sort of place, whose narration contrasts (-5[1])the “telencephalon” (15[1])and opposable thumbs of humans and pigs while tracing a tomato’s path from a farm to a dump. The writing style of Kurt Vonnegut inspired that 1989 Brazilian film (-5[1])titled for this sort of place (-5[1])“of flowers.” In a brisk montage from a film (15[1])titled for this sort of place, a crab fails to escape a (*) cutting board as a chef adds yellow poison to a sushi meal. That film titled for this sort of (10[1])place (10[1])was criticized (10[1])for not (10[1])translating any human characters (10[1])other than Tracy, (10[1])an American who asks Yoko Ono to help save a dump home to Boss, Duke, King, Chief, and Rex. For 10 points, a 2018 stop-motion (10[1])film set in Japan (10[1])by Wes Anderson is titled for what sort of place “of dogs?” ■END■ (10[2])

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