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1. Gillian Weiner 02.22.10 / 10pm

   Great poem! I know this film captured a lot of peoples hearts and minds. Having missed it at the festival, I’m very thankful I am able to rent it. Saving the dolphins is something that everyone should have a hand in. Hopefully this documentary is the begining of people being educated and wanting to help.
2. Jonas Pedersen Hardebrant 02.22.10 / 10pm

   This film was absolutely the one who made me think and want to react the most of all the documentaries at the Film Festival. Your poem really sums up the important facts, Good Job! Though I was mad that the Q&A was destroyed by the moderator who made people leave, which I feel was a big disappointment for director and Rick O’Barry…
3. Tom Seavey 05.07.10 / 1pm

   This film is an eye opener that is for sure, How ever, you have to see it to believe it and to understand it, you can’t just try and explain it to your friend. Winning at the oscars this year was exactly what this film needed to spread the word to a broader audience. If I understand correctly there is a follow up film. And Tho Cove will be shown in over 20 theaters in japan this june.
4. Gregory Vanderburg 05.09.10 / 11am

   I have heard so many positive things about what this film has done and how much this killing has hurt the people that watch this film. I have seen previews and read reviews, but I still can’t stand up and watch this for myself because I can’t just sit there and watch the slaughtering of dolphins. I already knew about this kind of murdering that goes on in Japan and I hope that this documentary film reaches everyone all over the globe so that we can put a stop to the murderous fishing tactics used by the Japanese against dolphins. I certainly hope that this film does air in some theaters throughout Japan because I know that if many Japanese people saw what they were doing they would be disgusted.
5. Derrell Jones 07.16.10 / 5am

   The Cove, is a captivating documentary about the the slaughtering of dolphins in Japan. The move gives a glimpse of what the sea food trade in Japan is really doing. The movie is really disturbing, to see people kill hundreds of dolphins with little or no remorse is disgusting. I am glad this movie was made to expose the murders in Japan, and bring to light the brutal and inhumane ways they kill dolphins. Even more scary is how dolphin meat is poisonous, due to its mercury content and should not be eating, that puts millions of pregnant women, and children at serious risk to get mercury poisoning. The Cove is a great film, and shows how inhumane and brutal humans can really be.
6. Omid Bazaei 10.28.10 / 10am

   Though I definitely felt for the dolphins and opposed all of the practices shown being done by Japanese fishermen, after doing a bit of research I realized that there is quite a bit of manipulation on the part of the filmmakers through editing. Certain things are said before or after something is shown and the audience member is meant to connect the two when the reality of the situation is that what is said and what is shown may not correspond to each other out of the context of the film. Though this is probably considered common practice and like I said, I in no way support what is being done to the dolphins and the whales (and the Japanese people in terms of mercury poisoning), I don’t necessarily approve of manipulation of the truth in any way, shape, or form. Especially when the goal is to trigger some kind of emotional response from an individual.
7. Kayla Odegard 11.09.10 / 1am

   This film was evoked so much emotion and thought, i really commend this documentary for its powerful play on the audiences emotions. The lengths the main characters have gone to protect the dolphins and to stop the evil killings that are happening in Japan really made me feel like I should do my part as well. The connection the filmmakers made not only to the dolphins, but how corrupt the entire business in Japan is; selling the dolphins around the world for amusement, mislabling dolphin meat and giving citizens of Japan mercury poisoning is all just so unsettling. Im so glad this film was made and light was brought to the whole situation. This film was put together beautifully and I would watch it not just once and would recommend it to anyone.

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