It is possible dolphins are able to actually transmit to one another holographic pictures--and that is how they chitchat. God knows how they relay vital information. Perhaps they will explain to us one day how it is they border on being psychic. I have always loved dolphins deeply, and have been angered at the thought that we capture them...for any reason. My childhood nickname in Spanish was "Tonina" ("Dolphin").
This film, a horrifying, compelling and consummate documentary tells of the town of coastal Japanese Taiji Town, as it is officially known (it's shortened to Taiji, which literally means Tai Temple). There, in that coastal prefecture is the "Cove"--a spooky natural cove deep in the coastline. Nearly 30,000 dolphins are massacred there from September to the following March each year. The carnage is so disturbing that when I saw it, I thought I was seeing human murder for a moment...and I was reminded of the concentration camps.
If that seems sensitive and "tree-hugging" to you, then you are a soulless monster uncaring about our earth--and our future. Dr. O'Barry, already much mentioned in the other reviews, is a caring, dedicated soul who ironically is responsible for the public 'hunger' for dolphins. He did all the dolphin work for the TV show "Flipper", and that was his intro to these small cetaceans. Not that we have them in our homes as we saw in the film 2010 (remember what year this is!!). But in Japan, people are being surreptitiously fed dolphin meat, obtained by the violent, obnoxious fishermen from the Cove.
One thrilling section of this documentary showed how George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic became involved in the cove exposure mission, by designing hidden cameras and hydrophonic sound recording systems. They had to act like CIA and Navy Seals to get the equipment in and then set it up...but it worked. Had they been caught there at the cove, the fishermen would have killed them. And then probably put them in with the dolphin meat.
It always struck me that the governments of the world could do a lot better to save all our precious resources, but we know they don't give a damn about that. This film showed me just how arrogant, snotty and careless they are--how psychopathic they all are. They know and do nothing. Dr. O'Barry has been barred from most marine biology gatherings. They all know what he's going to tell them.
The savage killing of the dolphins in that little Japanese cove is nauseating and tear-inducing. In a society that covets tickets to Sea World, that fawns over save-the-whales movies and dolphin TV shows, no one cares that we're poisoning our oceans and ourselves right now. No one seems to care that this planet will soon strike back, killing us off by the millions, just to preserve itself.
My terrible, personal pain is that it is too late. O'Barry said, if we cannot stop what is happening in that Japanese cove, we cannot stop anything. Well, I say we cannot stop anything; we've proved that so many times I'm basically just waiting to die of 'natural' causes like mercury poisoning or what we call "exposure cancer".
Get this awful film--an excellent, beautiful documentary that wastes no time or resources--because it is awful, the awful lesson of what he have done to ourselves, each other, our planet. Do what you will, donate all the time and money you like. Only know that it really is too late.Get more detail about The Cove.
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