Cove

This was one of the most gut-wrenching, saddest movies I've ever seen. It seems today that sad documentaries are on the rise. I first heard about this film when it was at Sundance a few years ago, garnering critical acclaim, and now I see why. This film was done in the style of both Cinema Verite and Direct Cinema. They show direct evidence of the killing and maiming of dolphins which makes it kind of hard to prove otherwise. The role of the filmmaker was guerrilla. They had to be sneaky to evade Japanese police and fishermen. The burning question at the beginning was will they caught and be arrested? At the end, I think it was will the world put a stop to these inhumane catastrophes? The visual imagery used in this doc. was the use of interview, underwater shots, thermal shots, etc. They had to go out at night so as not to be detected. The theme was simple, stop animal cruelty. Some of the stakes were unlike any I've seen in other docs. They could have been arrested without charge and held in prison for 28 days according to Ric O'Barry. The editing style incorporated old footage from Flipper, interviews, thermal shots, etc. This movie will stay with me for awhile.