Blackfish Documentary review

     
     Blackfish is a very sad, disturbing, and at the same time effective documentary. The documentary focuses on the lives of killer whales who are held in captivity away from their natural environment to perform in front of crowds their whole lives. The documentary featured several interviews from trainers and employees from Sea World that have decided to come forth by telling their side of the story. One killer whale, Tilikum was the films main focus due to the reason of his history of aggression towards his trainers. There were several incidents in the past not only involving Tilikum but several killer whales at Sea World and throughout the globe lashing out at their trainers even brutally killing them due to high stress being accumulated while in captivity. This documentary showed the abuse that was being afflicted on these intelligent and naturally harmless creatures. Many of these large animals are locked in dark cages barely large enough to accomodate their size often leaving scars and abrasions. These animals are caught in the wild when they are young and barely premature to look after themselves, their mothers are separated from them and killed in some cases. This list of abuse goes on and on...

   Overall I was quite impressed with the way this documentary was presented and really affected my emotions leaving me feel really sorry for what these intelligent creatures have to go through. It really does make me wonder how these animals are being held captive being exposed to high levels of stress leaving their trainers at risk of these animals lashing out. It leaves me to question if what they are doing at Sea World, exploiting these animals for entertainment purposes is really humane or not. In either case  I will never go again or look at it the same way, I find the whole act barbaric in a way. I highly recommend anyone who is a film maker or animal lover to watch this movie. The only question that remains is how this will affect the audience attendance at Sea World in the future. Grade: A-.