this movie is friggin brilliant. i saw it as a child and sought it out like my own holy grail. i wish humans didn't always pretend to be more complex than the rest of the animal kingdom.

i just chopped off the fleshy front half of my ring finger two months ago on a meat slicer! but even better than that, once the spurting blood was controlled, the doctor put this crazy stuff called gel foam on, which is essentially the same stuff: pig protein. it was like a spongey-foam bandaid, and after a few days it got hard, forming a protective shell; except they told me to keep it on, even for 3 weeks until my flesh grew back and absorbed the foam magic. brilliant indeed, however i did delight in thinking my finger would regenerate an entire new hand.