The Cove

The film “The Cove” is a true story about slaughtering the dolphins in Taiji, Japan. “The Cove” makes everybody think about it after realizing the problem of killing the dolphins. This film has many scenes which are hard to watch. It is not understandable how humans can be so inhuman, self-interested, and amoral. All people in the world see the dolphin as a beautiful creature of the nature that can makes them happy. Dolphins are free, happy and they are smiling to people without knowing that the next day they can be dead.

“The Cove” is the film that was made illegal. People, the activists who were involved in it, risked their freedom to show everybody what is going on in Taiji. They did. The fact that people in Taiji can sit, eating a dolphin’s or whale’s meat, and watch the show with the dolphins is shocking. And all those pictures of dolphins on the ground, on the bridge, the dolphins boats which are situated in the city where thousands of dolphins are being killed every day. The most terrible thing about it is the legalization of the dolphins slaughtering. The film makers know all those facts and they knew what they should show to people in order to make an impact. Watching this film and realizing that those people are acting and I am just sitting down without acting was awful. I think everybody could feel this way. Although, the fact that dolphins are smart and self-aware like people is good, still it didn’t stop anybody to kill them, or at least to think about it.

This film is sad and sensitive. “The Cove” is really similar to the “Trojan horse” result. Those people who wanted to stop the dolphins slaughtering put the hidden cameras in the fake rocks in order to get video and audio of killing dolphins. They also played different roles during their secure operation. They knew that it was illegal but they still wanted to show this disaster in Taiji to the world. It helped. The most terrible scene is the cove with water covered by blood of killed dolphins, the dolphin’s screaming. The film makers showed how people can be inhuman in order to make money. If they wouldn’t risk their lives and freedom to make this film, nobody could know about this disaster in Taiji. Also they were talking about the mercury poisoning though the dolphin’s meat. This meat was used in schools; children ate the dolphin’s meat with mercury in it. It was harmful for people to eat this meat. Why people in Taiji are still killing dolphins? I think the film makers wanted us to think about this question.

The film had some results but not stopped the dolphins slaughtering in Taiji. Therefore, some people were fired and some countries refused to support Japan in dolphins and whales killing. So, the film makers did an impact on this situation.

Japan, in this case, in order to response to this problem can make a film about pigs and cows farming and killing, or about fishing. But those people in Taiji still will be on people’s mind. It will be hard to forget and not think about this film.