Sundance 2009: "The Cove."
"The Cove" is a documentary about Taiji, Japan's capital for dolphin hunting, and how effective it is is directly proportional to how horrified you feel at the idea of dolphins being killed for meat. I've come to the conclusion that for me, the answer is: not very. I didn't relish the concluding footage of the world's most lovable cetacean flopping through its death throes in bloody water, but in the end I felt the same way I've felt when confronted with a look inside commercial slaughterhouses -- was anyone expecting it to be pretty? Dolphins, unlike whales, aren't endangered. They're just cute. A production of the Oceanic Preservation Society, funded by Netscape founder Jim Clark, "The Cove" is in part a very well supplied heist-style stunt that someone in the film compares to "Ocean's Eleven." While anyone can watch the dolphins be rounded up and offered to trainers as potential...
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