Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris 1978 Documentary)
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- Опубликовано: 19 апр 2020
- A documentary about a pet cemetery in California, and the people who have pets buried there.
Director: Errol Morris
The men who run a pet cemetery, and the men and women who bury their pets, become the subject of this documentary. We first meet Floyd McClure, a paraplegic with a dream to create a pet cemetery. One inspiration is the death of his collie years before; and the other is the local rendering plant, which turns animals into glue. He realizes his dream, only to see it fail. Then we visit a successful pet cemetery, run by a father and his two sons. One is a frustrated musician, nursing a broken heart. The other is joining the family business after selling insurance in Salt Lake City. Throughout, we also meet the people who have buried their pets.
An entire movie of interview footage that doesn't show a single question. Instead they just encouraged people to talk as long as they can about whatever they like.
I watched this with my elderly cat purring on my lap. I scratched her chin and thought about the pets I had before
Interesting human stories can be found in the simplest and least suspecting places. A very satisfying exposition on humanity.
My favorite movie. This, Vernon Florida and The Thin Blue Line...as impressive a body of work as any filmmaker you could name. Under appreciated.
Believe it or not, this little film, shot on a shoe-string budget of just a little over 100k, has been called one of the best films ever made. I believe it made Roger Ebert's "Greatest Films" list.
I usually get Ebert. Not now, not this.
His top 10 favourite ever
@@vrfvfdcdvgtre2369 IKR. Did he really buy all this toxic kool-aid, or was he acknowledging that it's one of the funniest movies on the planet?
@@vrfvfdcdvgtre2369 same
Ok guys let's calm down a little bit here, this film would be in a 100's list for someone who watch movies from his own country only. Let's be real....
Having recently watched Waiting for Guffman and Best In Show, I almost thought I was watching a Christopher Guest piece when I turned on this video.
I feel like there's almost no way Christopher Guest DIDN'T see this before he made Best In Show. Animals are the best, and people who care this much about animals are also the best.
Beautiful movie. Loving nature and animals is transcendent.
The older brother must have spent a fortune in motivational books and seminars.
He and the rendering plant manager seem, ironically, like they are right out of central casting.
Thank you so much for posting this
This was amazing. Thanks for sharing Thomas!
Imagine sending mom and dad to the rendering plant... Our pets (and all other animals) deserve the best from us. (And love the marijuana plants in the background at 1:10:54)
Hippy son had some talent. I was hearing a lot of Love, Byrds and Syd Barrett in his music.
I had my dog, Frisco, buried here. He passed Aug. 2, 2020 and buried Aug. 17, 2020. I miss him so. And I have videos posted on my channel of him.
So sorry for your loss. I understand how you feel, exactly. I didn't realize this particular place was still around since this movie is from 45 years ago. It's nice that it is.
Well, somebody entirely missed the point of this movie. I guess PT Barnum was right about suckers.
@@misterroperssmile8107 Yes, they are still sucking money out of really foolish, addicted people. I guess it's better than actually holding people up at gunpoint.
@@kell_checks_in Why would you care about how anyone else spends their money?
@@kell_checks_in Indeed, but I'm not sure it's who you have in mind
This film made me cry, a lot.
This is amazing 10/10
Thanks for uploading. I was really looking forward to this documentary, prepared with tissues by my side. But aside a couple of moments (particularly the shots at the end showing several graves) I felt it was more detached and less about human and pet relationships than what I expected, and more about grinding for success and the american dream in this particular field in regards of death and animal companions. I felt the interview extracts from the people who run the cementeries painted a very detached portray of them, and most of the emotional weight of the narration came from the interviews to the owners. Nothing wrong with that, I felt the movie was really trying to make a point and highlight the irony behind this bussiness, I just found interesting that reading the comments most of them are about the emotional connection they got from the documentary that I just didn't really get. Anyone else felt that way?
There is definitely a degree of (ironic? ) detachment. But I think this allows the people to talk openly and tell their stories without Morris (the director) pulling any heart strings or manipulating the audience. I found parts of it quite touching, and they were usually the incidental parts that weren't directly about pets - such as the woman talking about her son and the young man talking about "true love".
Top shelf
Fantastic movie.
@JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE yeah I get it
the insight into the minds and emotions of folks dealing with such a visceral reaction that is the death of their loved animal. i've never seen people from this era in such a human and vulnerable way. what these people say, there's so much in it.
And, when you realize they're talking about dogs, the whole thing becomes an amazing portrait of human delusion.
@@kell_checks_in I'm writing an essay on this documentary, and your responses make me curious. I personally loved the documentary. Would you mind providing your point of view on the doc? If you don't mind of course, I'd love to have an alternate point of view on this film.
This is on Roger Ebert's list of 10 personal favorite movies of all time.
That scene where the sweet lady is talking about cars and there's what sounds like a damn-near car crash, is WILD. This whole movie is wild.
This is genius!
Ebert’s top 10 brought me here
Me too, but this must have been a practical joke of Ebert. I watched the entire film. I want every minute back.
@@vrfvfdcdvgtre2369 You have to be an animal lover to "get" this film. I guess Ebert was.
Do anyone have any idear about what stuff they used to do this film
Wow what a great heart this man has...didnt do it for the profit but for the little souls
The guy eats animals (a natural thing to do), but is outraged to smell the rendering company... Well, he then must eat the entire animal, all parts...And not wear leather shoes...
You know people watch this and laugh their heads off, right?
Ok, shitlib.
"Neutered." Oh that part is so sad but soooo funny.
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this was fantastic. i wish i could have made out what the sign said at the end
50:15 hey look ! It's Robert Crumb !
Errol Morris is a genius. And he even manages to produce a demigod for his offspring.
I’ve heard this is one of the movies that inspired Jared Hess who made ‘Napoleon Dynamite’.
Yes!!!!! It totally is! It inspired him to have a simple locked off camera and characters with distinctive wardrobe.
Thomas Manning That’s kind of what brought me here. And I saw it as soon as the credits stopped rolling practically. Thanks for posting this.
Sure seems like it. There's something about rural america that feels so calming
@@waterlemon9838 calming??? These people are nuts. They are skating on thin ice, deluded that their lives are more dignified than those of the animals likely to end up getting rendered.
How funny that I found this after looking for the thin blue line whilst listening to penguin cafe orchestra who's music appears in Napoleon Dynamite!
Supposed to be 4:3?
1:12:00. Nice song, sounds a bit like dylan.
47:39 Crispin Glover look-alike?
1:10:57 CALL THE DEA
Anyone else here because of Bill Hader?
150 lb. greyhound? bollocks.
17:13 :')
here cause of emergency intercom
what what ep did they mention this in
The same people who love their pets continue to eat cows, pigs, and chickens. That is strange to me.
I can understand that perspective, but its impossible not to live in todays world at the expense of others. I love people but continue to pay taxes for my government some of which inevitably goes to the military budget which is used to kill people all over the world. I continue to use my smartphone that was born of slave run cobalt mines in Africa and built in sweatshops across the world (the kind with the suicide nets).
Beast/Satan energy comes from eating dead animals and animal secretions. This fills the human with the obsession of power, lust, ego, aggression, greed, and destruction. They want to destroy nature, love, childlike energy and the feminine energy in the world.
Napoleon Dynamite
Floyd McClure. Troy McClure. Coincidence?
I think Werner Herzog funded this film after the director win a bet with him and Herzog had to eat his own shoe.
I was ready to eat my shoes after finishing this film.
Herzog said he didn't fund it. He stated that he didn't know how Morris got the funds. The shoe thing is true. There's a 20min doc about it.
@@lotuseater7247 that’s how I found this film. Which was a large influence on Napoleon Dynamite.
I quit now
I quit
Now
He's got the office job and I'm goin after him
I'm goin after him good too
If I have to go in a different way
One of the funniest movies ever made. These nutters are hilarious!
One of the dumbest comments I ever read!
Also, if he really was a follower of God he knows that the body is merely a vessel for this earthly life. But that not too good for business
18:40 total hypocrisy. first thing he mentions is how good meat smells.. but then calls the rendering company hell on earth.
A rendering plant and a slaughterhouse are very different things. A slaughterhouse is where you would get your meat from, while a rendering plant is where they send all the leftover dead shit that nobody wants or can eat to melt it into tallow.
@@cameronmunro655 they send horses there, which makes me cry. They send wild Mustangs there.
Before you comment or speak Google the word if you don’t know what it means
"I know my little dog", so you can turn your back on the dog, and expect it not to eat your baby. After all, your pet is not an animal. Oh, wait...
Dogs and false prophets do not go to heaven. REVELATION 22:15 "Outside are dogs, sorcerers, immoral people, murderers, idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood."
Yea but later in Revelation 22:16 there’s the part where God says, “Actually forget what I wrote about dogs, of course they all go to heaven. My bad, I had a terrible hangover the day I made that rule up.”
@@Arko_Glass then in the new testemant god also wrote 'that vrfvfd cdtgtre youtube user is an asshole' - god could be quite aggressive sometimes
Then he said “just kidding, straight people are gross”
@@nklin6 Wow, you're so addicted to dogs that you're willing to rewrite the Bible?
There IS Biblical evidence that animals ARE in Heaven. Remember Revelations also states "the lion will lie down with the lamb"! Plus, if you are a Believer then you'd agree when Jesus returns He'll be riding a White Horse. This means somewhere in Heaven there is a Majestic White Stallion waiting around for the Second Coming!