zana-29266 This documentary changed my life. Absolutely brilliant.

rkaliz I will just mention one instance from the documentary and you think about it. There is a short mentioning of how a trainer used to train Orcas that were new to the park by putting them together with older, trained Orcas and asking them to perform the same tasks. When they, inevitably, failed, both animals were punished by being deprived of food. So the older, trained Orca, took it out on the younger, untrained one. Now, sit back and think about the same tactic being employed by human parents against their children. "I don't know who did it, but you are both grounded". There you go – a documentary about whales in captivity that taught you something about your own wrong methods of parenting.Aside from that, when you are done watching this, you will probably and justifiably never want to go to a marine park show with Orcas ever again. The documentary just works as a wake-up slap. We separate a baby whale calf from its mother and social structure, keep it as grown, 5 ton, apex predator in a pool for its entire life and milk it for its semen. If you ask me, Orcas must be the most mellow creatures on earth, for them to have only killed this few people in captivity…You want to see Orcas? Fly to Alaska or Iceland and get on a boat, to see them as they are meant to be: Swimming free and with erected dorsal fins.

Irishchatter I have nothing to blame but ourselves as human species for capturing and killing killer whales. I just was appalled and shocked that these creatures are treated like dirt. No wonder they are going to be nearly extinct soon. I tell ya, it will be an unforgiven process to us all when they are no longer on this planet.Seeing poor Tilikum just stuck in that small tank and the fin bent down, it really just breaks your heart. It was reasonable that he unfortunately died this year, he was a creature who was separated from his mother and the fact he turned violent, was very hard to watch. I couldn't believe SeaWorld didn't care about the victims who died or the trainer whose arm was violently bent by Tilikum! They were such selfish a***oles, blaming the trainers because they caused the whale to go at them, NO ITS THE WHALES GODDAMMIT AND HOW THEY ARE BEING TREATED BY YOU! Its just horrible, the scene I found the most hard to watch and nearly cried, was when they separated the mother and the calf. The mother whaled out with sadness and grief when her baby was taken. It was divesting and it makes you so so angry! This documentary honestly does want you to help these captured whales more.FREE THE WHALES

Kay Ellen Filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite presents this heartbreaking one sided story revealing the cruelty mankind force upon yet another helpless animal, the orca. It reveals the only side that matters. The truth. Blackfish proves to me what other animal rights documentaries have countless times; that humans are the worst kind of animal. Take what they will, risk deaths of innocent lives for money and their own pleasure. Corporations and individuals included. Please remember that zoos, eating meat and animal by products, getting touristic photographs etc. are just as bad!!!!! Most people will watch this and still not change one thing in their lives, but please sit down and have a real think about this and have compassion for other living beings! Or if not watch Earthlings or Cowspiracy. It's what many people have needed to see to turn vegetarian/vegan. We can blame lack of education but even once educated with more knowledge, people will still continue to turn a blind eye. More emotional documentaries like Blackfish need to be crafted in such a wife in hope more people will be willing to make a change. to exist. And more people need to