The Cove (Louie Psihoyos, 2009): USA

Reviewed By Kazimir Berman. Viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.

The creator of the world famous TV series, Flipper, Ric O’Barry has in recent years been on a mission to fight for the justice of the 20,000 dolphins that are slaughtered annually in a Bay in Taiji, Japan. These Japanese fishermen, seem to be convinced that the mass slaughter of dolphins is necessary to keep on living.

Rick O’Barry and a following of whaling activists are convinced otherwise. By any peaceful means necessary, O’Barry and his team find ways to capture on film the slaughter so that the world might be more aware to take action against these fishing practices. The Cove brings disturbing truths about current fishing practices in Japan which have been decimating the dolphin population and encouraging the capture and imprisonment of Dolphins.

Here’s a poem I would love the share which has been inspired by The Cove:

Special cameras are employed and decoys deployed,

Justice to be sought, for these dolphins which are caught.

23,000 in all. Every year for help they all cry and call.

So why not help the dolphins out, give them out a shout.

So hopefully this cove someday will be free of blood.

And the dolphins and fishermen will then be buds.

Living together searching out the Tuna.

Giving the proper amount of respect, which animals like that deserve

So they don’t die out, instead they are preserved.

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Published:
02.22.10 / 8pm
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Documentary, Films, Santa Barbara Film Festival 2010