Imagine being a Tiger. Locked in a Zoo. But you had no idea you were in a Zoo. You ate, you had the sun beam on your favorite rock as you lay in it, you were at peace with being enslaved without knowing it. Then one day a Zookeeper approaches you and explains how you're contained in a Zoo. The food you eat is terrible for you, the sun is fake, you start to realize you're surrounded by bars and see other Zookeepers mocking you. This rogue Zookeeper keeps telling you the person who runs the Zoo will fix everything. You wait. The Zoo finds someone else to run it. The Zookeeper stops coming to give you advice or ideas and hope. You're left alone. Nothing has changed but your perception of the Zoo. You watch every day as the other Zookeepers feed you poison, treat you poorly and profit off showing you to visitors. Your kin barely speak with you because they never trusted the rouge Zookeeper in the first place. You watch them trust the bad Zookeepers, taking their vaccines, following their rules, sticking up for them. While you sit alone. Confused. Surely everything the rouge keeper told you is true. You know it is. But why were you ever told any of this? The old person running the Zoo wants to return, but he supports those vaccines, he supports that food. He's only worried about new animals illegally find their way into the Zoo. Everything he said he would do 7 years feels like it's being repeated now. You don't know what to think. What was the point in showing you your habitat? Was it a cruel joke? A brilliant way to gain unwavering support by a group? All you can do is sit behind your cage as the Keepers in charge bang on the bars every morning to remind you where you are. As you go over the old conversations you had to figure out if you missed anything. But now, you trust no one. You don't believe the animals in the Zoo will ever be freed. If they were, you would have no Zoo! Everyone profits off the Zoo, even 'good' people. You try to enjoy the food, the fake sun, the bars around you, but you can't. You have learned too much. You are trapped. You lie down. Nothing will ever be the same again as you stare out at the bars.
Only love anon. Sorry you feel that way.
Not a big movie person but I did enjoy that one.