Buy:Giles
08-19-09, 10:05 AM
DVDTalk review: The Cove (http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/38043/cove-the/)
As someone who enjoys watching documentary films, there are the occasional that really make me angry and want to stand up and express my opinions, this is one of them. Not only is this movie structured as a primer to the mass slaughter of dolphins and porpoises in Taiji Japan (23,000 a year to be precise), it's also a thriller: seeing how the filmmakers got the horrific footage. The footage indeed is upsetting, but it's also the blaise attitude of the Japanese government and it's membership in the International Whaling Commission (which in of itself is a joke and hypocritical) that really is the expose of the film. Fishing maybe a "way of life", but at the rate of overfishing and depletion of this food source, I think Japan will face a rude outcome. It's predicted that by 2048 the world on the whole will run out of seafood.
Film's website: The Cove (http://www.takepart.com/thecove/)
another current documentary film about the global overfishing of the seas, (which I haven't seen) is The End of the Line (http://endoftheline.com/)
As someone who enjoys watching documentary films, there are the occasional that really make me angry and want to stand up and express my opinions, this is one of them. Not only is this movie structured as a primer to the mass slaughter of dolphins and porpoises in Taiji Japan (23,000 a year to be precise), it's also a thriller: seeing how the filmmakers got the horrific footage. The footage indeed is upsetting, but it's also the blaise attitude of the Japanese government and it's membership in the International Whaling Commission (which in of itself is a joke and hypocritical) that really is the expose of the film. Fishing maybe a "way of life", but at the rate of overfishing and depletion of this food source, I think Japan will face a rude outcome. It's predicted that by 2048 the world on the whole will run out of seafood.
Film's website: The Cove (http://www.takepart.com/thecove/)
another current documentary film about the global overfishing of the seas, (which I haven't seen) is The End of the Line (http://endoftheline.com/)