Touch the soul

Serenity 2021-12-27 08:01:18

Rick Oberg, who founded the dolphin show industry for 10 years, is the protagonist of the film. When the dolphin he personally trained commits suicide in his arms (the breathing of the dolphin is conscious, then a healthy dolphin deliberately refuses to accept it) Water surface breathing is a conscious suicidal behavior). He awakened. After 35 years, he tried every means to help the dolphins. Because he secretly rescued the dolphins, he was arrested N times a year. After learning about the dolphin tragedy in Taiji Town, He assembled a stuntman, two freediving world champions, a professional director, a veteran, and a rock star. This is a realistic version of the eleven arhats. Under the chase and interception of the local police, they used rocks to disguise. High-tech equipment such as cameras, military thermal imaging cameras, night vision devices, and underwater sonar traps recorded the dirty trade here for the first time: the local fishermen beat the bamboo poles placed in the water to hit the dolphins’ sonar system. They drove into a small bay, and then came back early the next morning and stabbed the dolphins trapped in the net with a spear one by one. At this time, the sea was really reddened by the sea (note that it is not a sea area, but the whole The water in the bay turned scarlet). . . Some little dolphins struggling to jump out of the fishing nets, dragging the blood that is constantly gushing behind them, trying to escape, and the fishermen would chase them and stabb them to death with spears mercilessly. These fishermen said: "We eat dolphins like Westerners eat beef. There is nothing wrong with it." Then I want to ask him, "Do you know how to eat your puppies and kittens?"

As Oberg said, dolphins have self-awareness. When they are enclosed in the net, they clearly know what is going to happen to them and their children. This is not fishing, this is slaughter, because the local fishermen never let go of the little dolphins. When have you ever seen the cubs of cattle, sheep and pigs killed? ?

When Oberg entered the International Whaling Association meeting with a monitor with its own power fixed on his body at the end of the film, he stood in front of the respectable members. It took a while for the security to pass and control the situation. Finally, when he was standing on the streets of Tokyo with the same equipment with his gray hair, facing the crowds coming and going, he stood there with no expression, resolutely, and solemnly complained.

Perhaps such a tragedy is too far away from us. Protecting the earth and saving rare animals has long been an empty talk. However, who is not far from this sentence? If you can't save rare animals, please do the former, at least create a clean sea for the surviving dolphins. But this has also become a luxury, because industrial pollutants are discharged into the ocean without restrictions, especially heavy metal elements like mercury that cannot be eliminated when entering the body have already existed in many fishes, and the mercury in the dolphins at the top of the food chain The content has already exceeded 5000 times the standard, so those Japanese have long been cold-hearted. At the end of the film, when the hair of the arrogant Japanese Minister of Fisheries was tested positive for mercury poisoning, I believe many people who support the killing of dolphins will sweat it! !

Documentaries may not add practicality to your life, but there are some facts that you must know, at least you have to know that there is another creature on earth that unconditionally likes human beings.

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  • Laurianne 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    A trial in absentia. The film is of the same nature as my political class, just documenting what their "side" wants people to see and accept. They couldn't answer the Japanese question of "what is the difference between whales and other animals", so they had to prove that dolphins are poisonous and slaughtered in inhumane ways to protect whales. From a "brainwashing" perspective, it couldn't have been better. Some scenes are similar to "Mother's Hoof Flowers", and Berry is similar to Ai Weiwei.

  • Reanna 2022-04-24 07:01:15

    It's really shocking, but it is undeniable that this film is too subjective, with a slightly radical color for environmental protection. Just ask, if this industry chain is terminated, what will happen to the fishermen who make a living from it, and what will happen to their children?

The Cove quotes

  • John Potter: As a scientist, I'm trained to recognize intelligence through objective measures... tool use, cognitive processes, and so on. As a human being, when I see a dolphin looking at me and his eyes tracking me and I lock eyes with that animal, there's a human response that makes it undeniable that I'm connecting with an intelligent being.

  • John Potter: It sometimes amazes me that the only language which has been extensively taught to dolphins is a version of American Sign Language, which, of course, you use your hands, so you have all these wonderful signals, and people use their hands to give messages to dolphins. And this somehow kind of misses the point because dolphins don't have hands, so this is inherently a very one-way process. And it's this anthropomorphic, "We have something to teach them or control them," and perhaps we ought to be looking at what they can give to us.