The Cove

This documentary could have been very good. There were three particularly interesting threads that came up: 1.

Dolphins are frequently seen as cute animals. Unfortunately, the people of Taiji, Japan, see them as targets.

I enjoyed this film as a fun, informative thriller, until near the end when the callous, mass killing of dolphins was revealed, which was absolutely nauseating. The film does a good job (as good as may be expected) of exposing conflicts of interest that keep the dolphin and whaling industries alive.

Let's face it Americans are in no position to start preaching on animal welfare and the environment, after killing pretty much every living thing in their own region. You can already imagine this film without even watching it - the usual Michael Moore type of affair, starting with stacks of emotive footage about dolphins and their intelligence and so on and how these American activist world saviours are going to save them and how the Japanese are all supposedly poisoning themselves with mercury buy eating dolphin meat and so on and so on, whilst completely missing the cultural complexity surrounding the hunting of dolphins and its tradition.

This is a great educational movie and it raises many ethical questions regarding the hunting and killing of dolphins in Japan. This movie is really exciting to watch.

I wish I could do something about this. I wish other people would do something about this.

I've had a day to think about it. There were just so many emotions that were stirred up after watching that movie, I couldn't possibly put it into a coherent statement.

About Japans dolphin slaughter at Taiji - You gotta see it to believe it!

"The Cove" is an American documentary mostly in the English language, but as almost all of it is set in Japan, we also hear some Japanese occasionally, but of course there are subtitles. It runs for 1.