I could've made a terrible pun about hot dogs and sausages in the subheading, but I didn't. You're very welcome.
First of all, this movie is not for children. If you're reading this article and you're under 17 (since that's the age a kid can see an "R" movie unsupervised), stop reading this article. Now. At this point. Right here. Stop. At this line. | Because this shit is about to get so real.
In broader terms, this movie basically talks about how supermarket foods literally have lives of their own, and see their lives as ones that should please the "gods". Who are the gods? Humans. According to this movie, supermarket foods see humans as literal gods. In my terminology, "that's wild".
These supermarket foods worship the gods, and they believe that, when they are "picked" by the gods, they go to "the great beyond". In the movie, "the great beyond" is seen as a wonderful, happy, eternal place to the food. Of course, they realize what we humans know--that the foods are actually "killed", and that we eat them for our own good.
I may only be 20, but the only movie I have ever seen that is probably the "trippiest" movie I've ever seen. You should know, lovely readers, I'm not promoting drugs, I'm just saying that sometimes creative people can get just a tad bit more creative if they're on something like cannabis. You know what I mean?
Okay, if you don't get it, I'll back up my argument. Shall we go on?
I don't make my argument about the connection between cannabis usage without any sort of credible source (I do mean credible sources, so from other people). There's even a clip from the show Real Time With Bill Maher of Seth Rogen describing how his artistic and comedic abilities have many times originated from smoking cannabis.
I bring up this point because I think that this movie truly dove deep into an area which had never been covered before: that is, the minds of supermarket foods (and, of course, a supermarket douche. A literal douche. I'll get back to that point later, though). In fact, it's fairly simple to see that a movie that covers this out-of-the-box idea of what life would be like if food could think and talk and operate similar to how humans do could be categorized as an R-rated film. After all, look at where food does go when it leaves the Supermarket? To our stomachs.
Now, things get even more psychedelic and innovative as the movie goes on. A frizzy-haired, bum-like, obvious stoner--played by James Franco--and who is only known throughout the movie as "Druggie"--shoots up bath salts and
Read that sentence above again. Seriously. Isn't that insane? Who comes up with these things? To be honest, only a team of Rogen, Franco, Kristen Wiig, Paul Rudd, Bill Hader, Michael Cera along with many more names could come up with an idea that's just about as innovative as the plot line of this movie. The last time I saw something this abstract was when I saw the 1968 movie "Yellow Submarine", a Beatles movie which totally blew my mind.
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