The Cove Highlighted the Plight of Dolphins in Japan, Lionsgate
The award winning documentary, The Cove (2009), stirred up quite a reaction on its release. However, despite the publicity The Cove made, it doesn’t mean that the horror is all over for the dolphins in the waters just off Taiji, Japan, where The Cove was filmed. Dolphin hunting season officially starts again on September 1 – and the Japanese are defending their dolphin killing actions by stating that it is a “tradition” that the Western world “does not understand.”
However the Japanese may like to argue and defend their “traditions”, there is no getting away from the distress the dolphins endure in the killing process, as shown in the making of The Cove. There is no disguising the calls of the dolphins to each other when they realize what is going to happen to them. There is no disguising the deep red color of the water after the killing is over. Words may go back and forth between the different cultures “who do not understand”‘ but I think photos and pictures can speak a thousand words more.
Many civilizations have committed questionable acts in history because it was “tradition” – but does this make it “right”?
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