“Ultimately, it’s going to be really awkward to keep eating other animals,” says Simon Amstell. “At the moment you can do it and society says it’s fine, but at some point I think there’s going to be a shift, probably over the next five years maybe because there’s so much information out there and you know it’s out there. You can’t then be putting milk in your tea without knowing milk from a cow means a baby was taken from her. You just know that now. I’m sorry.”
Carnage, a mockumentary set in 2067, takes place after this shift has happened. It shows a utopian vision of the future, where almost everyone is vegan, and most people are disgusted with their grandparents for ever eating meat. Combining archive footage with Simon’s fiction footage, the movie uses the narrative device to highlight the absurdity of eating animals. According to writer and director Simon Amstell, the most important bit is the comedy.