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Ashley Bell's documentary spotlights efforts to save the endangered Asian elephant.
Anyone who loves elephants (and if you don't, I want nothing to do with you…seriously) is bound to adore Ashley Bell's deeply affecting documentary about efforts to save the Asian elephant. The film's focus is on one elephant in particular: 70-year-old Noi Na, seen being rescued from a miserable life giving rides to tourists in Thailand. Depicting the endless cruelties perpetrated on these magnificent animals while delivering a moving feel-good story in the process, Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story is guaranteed to not leave a dry eye in the house.
Bell, also an actress who's appeared in such films as The Last Exorcism and Novitiate, details the horrific methods designed to train the animals for lives in servitude. The primary one involves separating a baby elephant from its mother and putting it in a confined space known as a 'Pajan," or "Crush Box," where it is beaten and tortured until its spirit is essentially broken. We see one such animal whose eye was put out by someone with a slingshot. "People, people, people," decries a conservationist upon seeing the damage........
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