The Cove
08-19-09 | 09:05 AM
#1
Thread Starter
Moderator
The Cove
DVDTalk review: The Cove
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
another current documentary film about the global overfishing of the seas, (which I haven't seen) is The End of the Line
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
another current documentary film about the global overfishing of the seas, (which I haven't seen) is The End of the Line
03-21-11 | 05:23 PM
#4
DVD Talk Platinum Edition
Re: The Cove
I had recently watched The Cove and I agree with you. It's one documentary that gets to you and makes you want to try and do something about it. Since Amazon now has it available, I saw it come up and decides to read the reviews. I went to the people who gave it one star and read the comments for 1 reviewer. Boy, this film is about to start WWIII.
Click here to read those reviews
Click here to read those reviews
