REVIEW: Cow [2022]

You’re free, babies. There are some real rocket surgeons working on the cattle farm in Andrea Arnold‘s Cow. After we watch #29 give birth for the second time, a farmer feeds her calf with a bottle of milk while she starts getting aggressively protective. We hear another voice ask whether she’s always been “that bad.” The feeder replies, “She never used to be. Old age.” Is it, though? Is it truly that difficult to fathom how maybe she’s grown protective because you’ve already separated her from five calves? Why wouldn’t…

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