A/V Fridays – The Cove
Posted on June 18, 2010 by
Have you seen it? Do you plan to?
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yup. It’s good, although I think some of the players on the “good” side are a bit whack-a-doo. Doesn’t mean they don’t have a point.
More than anything else, this movie made me want to take up freediving.
Saw it a month or two ago. It dang near made me cry. It’s very good, but hard to watch. Poor little dudes.
I haven’t watched it yet but I do plan on it.
Reminds me of how Greenpeace made a huge public case with the baby seal photo on their magazine, which in turn destroyed the livelihoods of the Inuit people of Northern Canada who had been living off seal hunting for centuries if not more.
As long as an animal is not under danger of extinction, there’s no reason for one culture to try to define for another culture what animals can be food/livestock and what animals should be treated like friends/pets.
A movie full of ignorance of cultures and anthropology, feeding off the tears and emotions of self-righteous Westernized activists who have barely seen anything outside their own little borders minus a few movies that show killings of animals – that’s my judgement of The Cove.
I am against whaling however, not because of some emotionally-derived, self-righteous moral reasons, but simply because they have so much mercury content based on how high they are in the food chain, so it’s not the most sanitary meat to eat. And I am against keeping dolphins in zoos and sea world for entertainment. They are not a bunch of fucking clowns – may as well take some idiotic activists and dress them up in clown suits and enjoy their theatrics.