Shot by award-winning former National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos, The Cove is a guerrilla-style documentary that captures the mass killing of dolphins each year at Taiji, Wakayama in Japan. The movie is being heralded by critics (it won the Audience Award at Sundance this year) for its combination of stunning visuals and disturbing secret footage—the director has described it as a mix of Jacques Cousteau and James Bond.
You may recall back in 2007, when Heroes star Hayden Panettiere had to flee Japan after an activist group she was surfing with tried to free a group of dolphins at Taiji from the nets of fishermen. The resulting confrontation is also captured in The Cove, which hits select theaters this weekend. Just don't expect it to play in Japan...for some reason they think Americans complaining about killing a few thousand dolphins is a tad hypocritical, considering the fact that our factory farms slaughter billions of animals each year. But hey, that's beside the point. Go dolphins!
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Diggerama July 30th, 2009 at 11:35 AM
I cannot see how anyone can compare, on a equal basis regardless the mass hacking to death of a wild and somewhat threatened species with that of a domesticated and sustainable species. I am a vegetarian and oppose killing any animal for consumption but the horror that is the Taiji dolphin hunt just doesn't seem even close to human OR justifiable.
Bang Bang July 30th, 2009 at 01:41 PM
Dolphin meat tastes good.
hilarleo July 30th, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Taste great, less filling- and it's FREE dammit.
Bobby Baker August 6th, 2009 at 08:28 PM
Dolphins are sentient beings, I understand that Bang Bang and Hilarleo aren't and probably taste like chicken but, even for free, I wouldn't want to eat them. Idiots. If you've ever had a chance to interact with wild dolphins on their terms you would understand just a touch of how incredible they really are! This is just plain murder. I'm junking my Japanese Toyota.