Round 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 of its director, Kim Ki-duk. The text “God doesn’t exist” opens a documentary titled for this sort of place, whose narration contrasts the “telencephalon” 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 “of flowers.” In a brisk montage from a film 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 place was criticized for not (10[1])translating any human characters (10[1])other than Tracy, 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 by Wes Anderson is titled for what sort of place “of dogs?” ■END■

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