Super Zoo

Mr. Ling had seen Terror Animal City himself and thought it was a decent film, with distinctive features and innovation.

However, its flaws were as evident as its merits, such as the less professional actors, a somewhat thin plot, and possibly due to limited investment, the props, well, were a bit rough around the edges.

Despite these blemishes, it was a good movie, and if Mr. Ling was to grade it from a professional standpoint, he could give it a little over 7 points.

Regardless, a score of 9 was out of the question, let alone 8.

Mr. Ling’s first reaction was that the producer had hired a troll army to artificially inflate the ratings to influence audience viewing and cinema scheduling. Cinemas had a love-hate relationship with troll armies, especially those not under their control, which often misled the cinema’s operations.

But after carefully examining the personal information and comments of those who rated it, he had a moment of realization.

It wasn’t the work of a troll army, but rather that there were too few people rating.

Most who watched and reviewed it immediately were likely fans of Zoos... Fans tend to let personal feelings heavily influence their reviews, and with the number of reviewers being small, it was not strange for the film to be exaggeratedly highly rated.

There were just over a dozen comments below.

"A seemingly joyous horror film that sends shivers down one’s spine! Five stars!"

"For the live-action special effects alone, I give a full five stars!"

"No violence, no gore, no monsters or zombies, yet it terrifies! A horror film like this widens one’s horizons. Five stars!"

"The result of putting oneself in another’s shoes is that everyone becomes kinder, five stars!"

"No trade, no killing--this is a radical animal rights advocacy film, spoilers included, that seeps in"

This was a lengthy review by a film critic who was quite famous in the industry and had met Mr. Ling once. Mr. Ling opened it and read on.

"Firstly, I must declare that I am not a fan. As a forty-year-old adult, my fondness for animals runs deep. Seeing through the fake cute and dumb appearances, I go straight for the essence: flesh and bone. To put it in human terms, I prefer eating animals, I enjoy beef, mutton, dog meat, and pork, and there isn’t a delicacy I don’t like..."

Initially, when the brother and sister argued over whether animals were simply human food or lives that needed protecting, I sneered, thinking the little girl’s naive thoughts were due to her brother slaving away on construction sites to provide for her sustenance, shelter, and transportation. Starve her for three days, and she would even eat her most beloved dog...

...

Terror Animal City, at first glance, does not look terrifying; on the contrary, it is quite beautiful;

Here lies ancient architecture amid little bridges and flowing streams, monkey-operated wineries with squeaks and screeches, the Whisperwind Restaurant founded by gourmands, Taoyuan-like picturesque scenes, mysterious underground tombs, and all sorts of animals, herbivores and carnivores alike, living lovingly together in Terror Animal City...

Until our unnamed yet rather handsome male lead arrived here, did he uncover a jaw-dropping truth beneath all the beauty: Animal City was ruled by animals, humans and animals had switched roles here...

Dainty foxes carried newly-purchased human skin handbags, coveting another piece of fur coat, as animal models’ fur garments were all made from human skin and hair...

In the farm on the back mountain, Uncle Boar got up early every day to feed a variety of feed to the hundred-plus humans penned up, and seeing them grow plump and healthy brought a satisfied smile to his face. When New Year’s arrived and the time came to slaughter for meat, his family would have a much better year...

Animal City had a small zoo, which housed various humans in cages. Every day, many animals visited the zoo for entertainment, with playful panda brothers especially enjoying watching two Africans mate; a few white girls in floral dresses stayed at ’Girl’s Mountain,’ where the kindly alpaca uncle would bring lots of fruit to tease the girls, tossing some for them to eat when they climbed to the bottom of the enclosure; the dolphins loved taking selfies and often visited the aquarium, forcing a few humans underwater to take pictures with them...

The residents of Animal City had kind hearts; they tamed obedient humans as pets, led them on leashes, and trained them to relieve themselves in the woods at regular intervals. To protect the humans, many pets were neutered before they were kept...

Uncle Gray Bear was a famous Hunter in the city, commanding a hunting squad. Every time he brought captured humans back to the city, he was greeted warmly by the residents. He would gift the severed fingers of young boys and the noses of young girls to the bravest of the children... Uncle Gray Bear’s cabin by the river was adorned with human heads of various skin tones, and there was a photo of him holding a shotgun, standing over a dying human...

Whisperwind Pavilion Gourmet City expanded its barbecue business, offering fresh snowflake beef buttock meat, bloody fifteen-year-old rib racks arriving at the tables like running water. Of course, there was also the male animals’ favorite, human kidneys and whips, along with the spicy and refreshing human brain…

The richest rhino uncle made his fortune selling human teeth, entrusting Uncle Grizzly Bear’s hunting team every week to hunt humans, knocking out their teeth to make expensive human tooth products… An intellectually disabled human could fetch a high price at the medical college, and Animal City had regulations that, to ensure humanity, only intellectually disabled humans could be used for live experiments… The same applied to the fighting arenas, with explicit rules that fighters were strictly prohibited from stabbing humans directly in the eyes with swords, and could only target areas with more flesh like the back and buttocks…

Besides, Animal City also had a group of adorable ’Police Humans,’ hundreds of strong and sturdy humans, trained from a young age to loyally guard the city. At a trainer’s command, they wouldn’t hesitate to tear apart any resisting humans…

Humans, in this world, were a scarce resource, living off the wild fruits and mountain springs in the surrounding forests.

Our male protagonist arrived in such a world as a human, and upon opening his eyes, took an arrow to the knee…

In the distance, Uncle Grizzly Bear was leading his hunting team to encircle him, and dozens of tamed ’Hunters’ roared towards him, pouncing…

Fortunately, he was rescued by a group of wild people…

They called themselves ’Lure,’ wild humans upholding the will of the Fire God Mazda, living tenaciously in the wilderness, and had formed a human resistance army…

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The male protagonist learned that to return to his original world, he must kill the Queen of Animal City, a great cat!

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With the help of a brave young Lure man, the protagonist infiltrated the city, became a pet for a kind long-eared rabbit, and began his undercover operation…

Unexpectedly, during the infiltration, the male protagonist and the long-eared rabbit developed feelings over time, and he accidentally revealed his plans…

For love, the long-eared rabbit eventually crossed racial boundaries, forsaking her feudal family, deciding to help him. She cut off one of her own ears as a token and helped the protagonist sneak into the Queen’s chamber…

I must interject, why could a rabbit enter the Queen’s chamber and not the palace? This movie has many such thought-provoking seeds worth pondering.

Everything was ready, and the moment the protagonist raised the knife, the Queen, dressed in thin gauze and lazily napping, gently turned her head…

That face, to his shock, was a human face, his sister’s…

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To stab, or not to stab, that was the question!

Fortunately, the protagonist didn’t have to make such a difficult choice. The moment he saw the Queen, he woke up from the dream.

After waking from the terrifying dream, he released all the fish in his home along with his sister.

At the end of the movie, the protagonist pulled out a small section of a still warm rabbit ear from his pocket and stared deeply into the distance as the sun set…

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In conclusion, the critic said: After watching this movie, my entire being was in disarray. From a professional standpoint, this movie really doesn’t deserve a five-star rating; perhaps 7 would suffice.

But for some reason, I couldn’t help giving it a full five stars!

If I must justify my reason for the perfect score, all I can say is that I couldn’t suppress the impulse. The whole movie was so eerily unsettling that I couldn’t resist taking another look.

Enough said, I’m going to watch it again tomorrow morning.