Ethos In Blackfish

Blackfish is a well-known film about how whales were kept in captivity while being mistreated. This film explained the situation in more of a sequential order stating each event one after another from occurrence. This film was made to inform people of all the cruel and monstrous things that Sea Land and Sea World were doing to the whales.
Do you think the people of Sea Land and Sea World mentally injured the whales by taking them from their natural habitat? There were men sent on large sea boats and men in helicopters with some device that scans the water to locate the whales. Then once they track the whales they use the boats to separate the females and young ones from the males to try to abduct the youngest whales. People who cares about

whales would think of this situation as being diabolical and wicked.
Blackfish uses both the argument’s appeals, ethos and pathos to best inform people of the torment of the whales.

It also persuades people to take the side of the whales due to the suffering and misery shown. Ethos in a sense of a backup route to help support the persuasive idea of the film. One incident is where both ethos and pathos were used in the same situation was John Crowe was filmed. John Crowe stated “trying to get the young Orca in the net while the whole damn family is 25 feet away communicating…. I lost it I started crying, but I continued to work I just couldn’t handle it. It was like kidnapping a little kid from its mother.” He also stated the whales that died were gutted and stuffed with rocks. People who view this film are likely to be on the side of the whales. When the trainer Dawn Brancheau died there where many different actuations about how she died. One were stated by Jim Solomons that “Dawn slipped and fell in the whale holding area and drowned.” Another was by Sea World executive Thad Lacinak. He reported to the media that it was Dawn’s fault that she got attacked. He stated “if dawn was standing here now she could tell you it was her fault… he grabbed her pony-tail and pulled her that’s as simply as it gets. To me that a bad why to remember one of their great and loved whale trainer. Well what does that matter they’re only worried about the replacement of Dawn, and the start of the money flow from the tourist attraction of Sea World back on

board.
This film expresses both the audience and acknowledges the overall moral. In example the indicated audience is people who are interest in the busy or industry of anything involving Sea Land and Sea World, whale lover, and in general people who will do something about the cruelty of these whales. The moral of this film is to inform people of what these types of businesses are doing to get their whales, and how they treat them once they get them. It also persuade people to do something to put the abduction of whale, and inappropriate placement of these whale. Blackfish supports the claim very well as in showing why these whales shouldn’t be taking out of there natural environment, and placed in captivity then forced to participate in the activities the call for.
Blackfish uses the reasoning error of avoiding the issue numerous of times. As in for one the whale Tilikum that was taken as a young orca from its natural habitat by Sea Land was scarred. Not only had this whale murdered numerous of trainers, but sold to Sea World as a semen donor for them. The genes from this whale was passed down to other whale that will later on display the same behavior as Tilikum, and also taken from their mother which is a negative thing that will be exhibited later in their lives. So they have a known whales that had killed genes, but also experienced the same as him they don’t understand that likely that gene is going to come out soon. From the footage that were presented in Blackfish almost every offspring of Tilikum exhibited that behavior.