The Cove

2009 "Shallow Water. Deep Secret."
8.4| 1h32m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 31 July 2009 Released
Producted By: Diamond Docs
Country: United States of America
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Official Website: http://www.thecovemovie.com/
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The Cove tells the amazing true story of how an elite team of individuals, films makers and free divers embarked on a covert mission to penetrate the hidden cove in Japan, shining light on a dark and deadly secret. The shocking discoveries were only the tip of the iceberg.

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e-70733 It is a paradox to present facts in a subjective way, unless the standpoint of the film is not to show the facts. The essence of both salvation and killing is a continuation of human self-identification. Therefore, I do not believe that what is concealed in sorrow, how much is the human savior-like vanity. Of course, this film records the dangers and costs of the crew. However, almost all the madness begins with the obsession with attitude and giving.
Forest G If you are one of those rare people that has huge empathy for animal, don't watch this film This documentary will make you cry. There are graphic violence scene in the end of the documentary. It is really bloody scene.This documentary is about the investigation in Taiji, Japan. The town where people hunt Dolphins to be sold for Sea World, and some of them will be slaughter for food They want to record what those people do in that cove. In the end they got the evidence.This documentary is impactful and well documented. I do hope in the end we can stop hunting dolphins, at least stop slaughtering them for their meat.
knudson313 I've loved dolphins and animals in general my entire life, and when I was 11 years old I was planning to do a dolphin swim during a vacation to Mexico. I was looking more forward to this dolphin swim than just about anything, and had no knowledge of the horrific industry that drives it.So five years ago, just a few months before my vacation, I saw a preview for this film premiering on Animal Planet. I didn't understand the preview much, but knew it had something to do with the killing of dolphins. The next time I saw it, I showed it to my father and asked him what it was about. He didn't exactly tell me, but encouraged me to watch it. I was hesitant since I love dolphins and am very sensitive when it comes to animals, but we agreed to record the premiere and watch it together.So watched we did. I understood everything perfectly, with the help of a little explaining from my parents. By the end, I was crying too hard to even speak and was completely baffled by the cruelty displayed in the film. I canceled my dolphin swim and decided that day that I would never support the captivity of cetaceans. I even started an ultimately unsuccessful blog attempting to raise awareness about it. I'm now 16 and my feelings are the same. I believe that watching this film was a huge jump of maturity for me, it truly changed me as a person. I encourage everyone to view this film and really think about it and what it means. I think that The Cove and other great documentaries about animal cruelty should be shown in schools, and maybe the world would become a better place.
roel_cyborg in a few words said ,to see this documentary exposes the killing of 23.000 dolphins a year sustained by the Japanese government in a village called Taiji using the sea cove there .Often selling the dolphin meat as named whale meat .Only few singled out and capt alive to sell to companies like sea world (exposed in the movie documentary" Blackfish 2013")The Japanese government secretly calls this slaughter pest control .In this documentary exposes also the reason why the Japanese government is actively involved in the killing of whales and dolphins . Simply put,dolphins and whales eat fish and killing this intelligent sea creatures leaves more fish for the Japanese economy ,domestic and export ,its economics by savagesFormer dolphin trainer Richard O'Barry(TV series Flipper 1968)experiences the intelligence and personality of this sea creatures early on and ever since fought for their humane treatment around the world For this documentary he teamed up with filmmaker 'Louie Psihoyos basically got people around to group up and thats how this movie came about hard to watch sometimes but good to know