OK, saying this film is good is based on the above points, especially those slaughter scenes shot by the film crew at great risk, which are even more worthy of respect. However, this does not mean that I agree with the position of the film. In fact, I hope that professionals will come out to introduce more and let me learn.
The position of the film is reflected very strongly, and the whole process is basically carried out between the knowledge background introduction + a shooting action + some sensational, the editing is very smooth, and the information is conveyed very well, but I still have a problem. : why? Catching live dolphins is still driven by high profits, but why kill dolphins? Since the dolphin meat itself is not worth much, and they have to take so much resistance and spend so much money, why do they still kill dolphins?
Maybe a careful friend said, didn't they say it in the film? To borrow the words of the former imc representative of the Dominican Republic: The most important reason for the Japanese to kill dolphins is not for money or even political reasons, but a wrong projection of the concept of a great power. They think that since the Westerners do not let us do this or that, we will Don't do it for you to see.
But the problem is that in the first half of the film, in order to prove that the Japanese do not like to eat dolphin meat, the film crew specially interviewed many Japanese people on the streets of big cities such as Tokyo and Osaka, and came to the conclusion that the Japanese do not like to eat dolphin meat, and they do not like to eat dolphin meat at all. Didn't know so many dolphins were killed.
Does this contradict the reasons mentioned later?
Explanation 1: Little devils are not good things, they are lying when they are interviewed. But later the film crew didn't find that many supermarkets clearly marked with dolphin meat for sale (the ones that were replaced secretly were not counted), which in a sense disproved the interviewee's statement: maybe except for Taidi. In areas where a large number of dolphins are killed, people in most parts of Japan do not know nor love to eat dolphin meat.
Explanation 2: According to the following hints, the reason why the little devils did not know about this was that profiteers were making trouble, bribing the media, and cheating... The purpose was to shoddy and sell dolphin meat as high-grade whale meat at high prices. This is difficult to hold. First of all, even if you don’t believe in the degree of freedom of the press in Japan, at least blocking news there is much more difficult than blocking news where there is a wall (blocking news is not so easy where there is a wall), and the news media It's far from monolithic. If the whole country is really ignorant, only the controlling class of the country understands... Uh, this is not an environmental film, this is the Japanese version of 1984... Second, as I said before, that kind of live circus dolphin sells more than Dead dolphins are much more expensive. The live ones cost 15,000 knives, and the dead ones can only be sold for 600. The profit margin is too great. Even profiteers can't wait, they won't kill the chicken and get the eggs like this - let alone the Japanese are always shrewd (although often one-sided). And judging from the film, the hunting and killing of dolphins are basically concentrated in the Taidi area, and there are no resources to kill the surrounding areas. For the benefit of this place, using resources to buy Central American countries in the name of a country is too... This cost Who will be shared? Or scammers...
Therefore, according to the film, my inference is: the answer given in the film is a bit nonsense, at least from the information it provides, but I prefer to believe the following reasons: 1. Japanese people are mentioned later in the film He firmly believes that dolphins play an important role in the decline of fisheries, and removes dolphins as "pests". Although the film later mentions that "human beings are the greatest enemy of the endangered fishery", it does not deny the view that dolphins consume fisheries. From the standpoint of fishermen, they would definitely not consider themselves bullshit, and it would be natural to blame dolphins and whales; 2. There may be some truth to explanation 2, profiteers - let's be serious, it should be a big fisherman Processing companies should be the black hands behind it. On the one hand, they convince fishermen that their enemies are dolphins by subsidizing scientific research institutions to provide figures on the consumption of fishery products by marine mammals such as dolphins, so as to ensure annual production by killing dolphins, on the other hand. Take control of the media (think about it, it's a secret location, no one cares about it, but it's a secret location), and build a global lobby for legitimacy. As for the use of dolphin meat as a shoddy product to poison the Japanese people - that's just a means of making full use of "waste" (they want dead dolphins, and dead dolphins are really useless), dolphin meat is not the core of interests at all.
According to this inference, in fact, the film can continue to be filmed. The real culprit is a powerful industrial system. The fishermen are only the lowest end of the industrial chain; the killing of dolphins is just an incidental aspect of maintaining the industry. Work, in essence, is the capitalist industrial system that is destroying nature and the ecological balance of the earth... Let's not go on, let's continue, and we can do the West Malaysia thesis.
This is my random thoughts after watching the film, welcome to discuss.
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