Bacon And God's Wrath Analysis

A lot of people like bacon. Ask anyone about bacon, and they most likely will tell you that it is delicious. It is apparent in our commercials and Internet videos that bacon is a very popular food. Yet, there are some people who do not eat bacon. It is not because they do not like the taste of it, but because their religion deems it unkosher. In the Old Testament verse Deuteronomy 14:8, it says, “The pig is also unclean… You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.” For this reason, many people of the Jewish faith abstain from eating any pork products, including bacon. However, what would happen if someone who kept kosher for their entire life abandoned their faith and did not have to follow that rule anymore? That is the premise

It discusses the effects faith can have on a person’s life and what it means to give up that faith, told in a unique and entertaining way. The subject of Bacon and God’s Wrath is Razie Brownstone, a ninety-year-old woman from Ontario who is about to eat bacon for the first time in her life. Her story is told through very clever uses of animation, both hand-drawn and computer-generated, which results in some clever visual imagery. Razie recounts her upbringing in a strictly Jewish family. For most of her life, she followed the religious teachings she was taught in her youth. However, then she reveals that recently, she had come to question her faith after doing research on the Internet. According to Razie, “That feeling of connectedness, it was more than I ever got from going to synagogue… It was a first step on a slippery slope, and I went very quickly from Julia Child to Christopher Hitchens.” After discovering this new information, Razie felt that she no longer had a need to follow Judaism. Subsequently, she became an atheist, and as such, had no qualms with violating the laws prescribed by scripture, including the one prohibiting the consumption of pork. For this reason, she can finally enjoy the crisp, savory taste of a strip of bacon. In the closing lines of the short film, Razie describes this new