The Cove

For those of you who visit this blog from time to tie you will know that I am not only a nature lover, but am deeply concerned with the way the general public turn a blind eye to to what goes on. I understand that to take all this on board would cause major life style changes (where you buy food, what you eat, what you throw away) and lets face it, most people just do not want to be inconvenienced.

Sad but very very true. Even I, up here on my high horse, sometimes cannot be bothered and buy prawns knowing how destructive the methods in which they are caught are on the ocean simply because I want them.

I had posted on Sharkwater a while ago, as well as the extra Hero's activities of Hayden Panettiere trying to save the lives of trapped dolphins before they are butchered by Japanese fishermen, and now Sundance brings us another film. The Cove.
Variety reviewed it and had this to say:

"Eco-activist documentaries don't get much more compelling than "The Cove," an impassioned piece of advocacy filmmaking that follows "Flipper" trainer-turned-marine crusader Richard O'Barry in his efforts to end dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan. Casting a very wide net, this powerful polemic is simultaneously a love letter to a beloved species, an eye-opening primer on worldwide dolphin captivity, a playful paranoid thriller and a work of deep-seated (if sometimes hot-headed) moral outrage. The devastating final images demand to be seen on the bigscreen, though cable exposure won't blunt their impact."

Tackling dolphins and their slaughter in Japan, the film makers risk their lives to record footage to show the world. Of course this is going to be upsetting and no doubt I will be unable to watch a majority of the footage, but with enough people going to see this, maybe we will be on our way to stopping this cruelty. The sad thing is, unless they are cute and cuddly penguins, people do not really rate documentaries about nature. They are usually reserved to being viewed on PPS.
This is such a shame because as fascinating as walking on a high wire is, and how horrendous the holocaust was, the future of our planet is in critical condition now. Unless people are willing to wait a few years to go and see documentaries about all the creatures that are no longer with us.



Oscar Prospects:
Best Documentary