Killer whale tears

Ambrose 2022-01-04 08:02:09

Since "Blackfish" was released in a small theater in my city, I have been planning to watch it. It’s a pity that I didn’t have a chance until the movie was released, so I looked forward to the DVD release on November 12th. A text message from my friend this afternoon told me that CNN will play "Blackfish" at nine o'clock in the evening. I was so excited that I quickly prepared the video and waited until the evening to enjoy the film without being bombarded by advertisements.

The film has entered ten minutes, and my emotions have bottomed out with the interview. Listening to the former whaler's confession of whaling memories, and looking at his red eyes, my heart is also stinging for the captured whale and its family members in the picture. At the branch of the river, the male whales in the whale group led two whaling boats to the right tributary, while the female whales swam to the left tributary with the baby whales. It could have escaped this catastrophe, but did not hide from the eyes of the sky; the plane immediately told the whaling ship to turn around when it spotted the mother and child whales. The little whales fell into an abyss where there is no collective family and endless ocean. Seeing the whale family wailing around the hung baby whales in the picture, the grief and helplessness also made the whalers cry, but he said: The life in his hands cannot be stopped.

The captured little whales have since been trapped in a small box-like space. Experts say that their mental trauma prevents them from being like before. They live in a collective life without their nature, without a vast ocean, and without communication with the group. They are isolated for a living, and this isolation is a lifetime, that is, the remaining dozens or hundreds of years after being arrested. Whales caught everywhere live together, but they have no similarities in "culture". It is as if human beings are placed in a completely unfamiliar group with no intersection, the spirit is wiped out a little bit, and it will disappear in the end.

Whales have three times more emotions than dolphins. They are not "lower creatures" compared to humans. I was reading Chai Jing's "Seeing" recently, and I couldn't help making associations with some of the stories in the book. Chai Jingshu records a "prisoner" who was arrested because of the Cultural Revolution and then detained for 28 years. For the second half of his life, a normal person was confined in a psychiatric ward of less than two square meters. When he came out, all his joints were atrophied. The portrait was like a ball, his speech ability was lost, and his social skills were lost. Dear; he has been ground into a fool for a lifetime of twenty-eight years. Are the little whales the same? They are kept in the aquarium cell and spend two-thirds of their lives in a small dark box, with curved fins, monotonous performances day after day, and no family; they are also alive by human beings and become "madness". Some people may question their feelings with the whale trainer, but I think there is no connection between their feelings and various attacks. Another story recorded in "Seeing" tells that 70% of Chinese female violent repeat offenders kill husbands. The long-term domestic violence numbs them, but their only resistance becomes an uncontrollable vent, which leads to tragedies. Haven't they been in love all these years? Of course there was, but it was slowly wiped out. How can humans complain about the cruelty of whales while they are torturing them? The long-term compromise of the whale is accompanied by the loss of control from time to time, which is a momentary loss of control that cannot be saved by the long-term relationship with the whale trainer.

When I was young, I often had a dream. The human being in the dream became the pet and food of the newly born "higher creatures" in the future. We are arbitrarily manipulated and have no freedom like animals. I think if that happens, we will "evolve" into Tilikum, a billion killer whales.




Refer to Chapter 5 of Chai Jing's "Seeing": We will finally be indistinguishable, like water thicker than water; Chapter 6: Silence is screaming

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  • Glennie 2022-04-21 09:02:50

    I heard that whales and dolphins are the species on earth that also have souls in addition to humans~

  • Harmon 2022-03-28 09:01:07

    After watching this film, I went to a pet store and fell in love with a (like) goldfish by chance, but I couldn't make up my mind to buy it because I couldn't give it freedom. Although it is said that the goldfish has only 7 seconds of memory, it can't remember anything. Karma, the cycle of good and evil. There will probably be a period of time after which I cannot convince myself to keep any animals in captivity.

Blackfish quotes

  • Whoopi Goldberg: We don't speak Whale.

  • Himself - OSHA Expert Witness, Whale Researcher: The First Nations people and the old fisherman on the coast, they call them "blackfish". They're an animal that possesses great spiritual power and they're not to be meddled with. I've spent a lot of time around killer whales and they're always in charge. I never get out of the boat and I never mess with them. The speed and power is quite amazing. Rule are the same as the pool hall - keep one foot on the floor at all times.