Hi, You know this time of year touches everyone's heart. Most everyone wants to do something nice for other people.
There is a new documentary that takes a close look at the dolphin slaughter in Japan that continues on every year. The review web site for the documentary is http://www.takepart.com/thecove. Trailers, also, found at http://www.thecovemovie.com/ or, watch one of the trailers below. If you have ever felt led to help an animal foundation, this movie may direct your heart to a very worthwhile cause.
The movie is heart-rending! It is called "A classic espionage tale", "truly harrowing", "passionate, exciting, and frightening", ... The gentleman who trained the dolphins who played the part of Flipper many years ago is one of the main people in the movie. His heart is one of total compassion for the dolphins.
The people who made this documentary are very brave. If a script was written on the subject, it would not have been better portrayed with everything playing out as it did. This is real! It will open your eyes to something that is hard to fathom, because even though this movie has been daringly produced and the activity exposed world-wide, the slaughter is still scheduled to continue as it has not, as yet, been stopped.
"If we destroy anything in nature we are taking away from ourselves," is a quote in the movie. This our future and that of our children and grandchildren. We must take steps to ensure a safer, healthier environment and eco-system now. The ocean is life. What happens to it, happens to us.
God bless,
Stephen
(Do visit the web sites mentioned above. I had to remove the video due to a glitch that kept it in replay mode. You will find the trailers eye-opening.)
Summary...
In the 1960s, Richard O'Barry enjoyed a lucrative career as a specialized animal trainer; he captured the five dolphins that were used in the popular television series Flipper, and taught them the tricks and special commands they used on the show. Four decades later, O'Barry has renounced his former life as a trainer and become an animal rights activist, speaking out against the hunting of aquatic mammals and keeping them in captivity. O'Barry is not welcome in Taiji, a town along the Japanese coast where hunting dolphins is a major part of the local economy, but he and a group of activist filmmakers made their way into the city as well as the carefully guarded harbor in hopes of documenting the abuse of dolphins by fisherman and the poisoning of the waters that has taken a toll on the marine ecology. O'Barry and his colleagues captured some beautiful underwater footage as well as shocking images of how the town's fisherman have sullied the dolphins and their habitat, and director Louie Psihoyos has used this material as the basis for the documentary The Cove, which received its world premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. - Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
