However, Marshall's film does not only aim to document animal rights activism but also to propagate it, and in that it is less successful. This is a film overflowing with passion and compassion but often lacking the intellectual detachment necessary to distill conviction into a rigorous argument. "The Ghosts in Our Machine" is so convinced of its beliefs it doesn't really try to persuade you of them. It just assumes you'll agree.
We hear at the start of the film that the struggle for animal rights is the 21st Century equivalent to the struggle for civil rights in the 1960s but this idea is not cogently developed.
emos escuchado que al principio de la pelicula se pelean por los derechos animales de el siglo 21 equivalentes a cargan con los derechos civiles 1960 pero esta idea no esta bien desenvuelta
Escuchamos al inicio de película que la lucha por los derechos de los animales en siglo XXI es equivalente a la lucha por los derechos civiles durante los sesentas, pero esta idea no es desarrollada de forma coherente.
En el comienzo de la película escuchamos que la lucha por los derechos de los animales en el Sigle XXI es equivalente a la lucha por los derechos civiles en los años 60, pero esta idea no es desarrollada convincentemente.
Some of the film's best sections deal with the importance of the adoption by ordinary citizens of animals that have been used in tests or intensive farming. A later scene tells us that all animals should be granted rights equal to humans and that no being should be allowed to own another, meaning that just as humans should not own other humans as slaves, we should also not own animals as pets.