Hunger

Sobre Hunger

Hunger/La Faim é um curta-metragem animado canadense de 1974 produzido pelo National Film Board of Canada. Foi dirigido por Peter Foldes e é um dos primeiros filmes de animação por computador. A história, contada sem palavras, é baseada nas consequências da gula e da ganância na sociedade contemporânea, que mostra a progressão de um homem de magro e jovem a grotesco e obeso.

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Notable quotes

“The slippers of the mortal Earth, Now touched the chest of the Moon. Oh, It is shameful that the misery of hunger is still continuing as it was in the past.”
— Manmohan Acharya .
“FAO’s most recent estimates put the number of hungry people at 923 million in 2007, an increase of more than 80 million since the 1990–92 base period.”
— Food and Agriculture Organization Economic and Social Development Department. "The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2008 : High food prices and food security - threats and opportunities". Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2008, p.2.
“New cottonseed processes ... can produce high protein concentrates containing little or none of the poisonous pigment . All of the processes use a variety of chemical solvents... to sidestep the need for protein-destroying heat which was used in earlier processes.”
— John F. Henahan, Men and Molecules (1966)
“Today 850 million people are hungry and malnourished. Over half of them are children. 18,000 children die every single day because of hunger and malnutrition.”
— James Morris, as reported in "18,000 children die every day of hunger, U.N. says", USA Today, (February 17, 2007).
“A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger.”
— Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Servingmen (1598).
“Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.”
— James Thomson, The Seasons, Winter (1726), line 393.

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