The Cove Review 1. Who are the film’s subjects? The film’s subjects are the dolphins, in the town of Taiji, Japan, fishermen, who slaughter them and try to hide the cove from being filmed and try to get the crew of Louie Psihoyos, which consists of dolphin activists, divers, surfers, film producers, scientists, and other crew members, who help Louie and O’Barry with the stopping mass killing of dolphins on their cove. The main subject are the dolphins. The other class is the team to help the subjects be free from captivity, but still play as helping protagonists of the film, and the fishermen are the ones against their belief because they make a hefty dime, which makes them the antagonists. The Dolphins have no choice in what to do except to try to swim for their lives to get away from the fishermen. 2. What is the film’s approach? …show more content…
The films approach was to shed light on the town of Taiji, and its killing of Dolphins.
The main plot throughout it explains itself. The approach is to stop the killing of Dolphins. Series of interviews hidden footage from cameras planted on the site to show what the fishermen are doing to the dolphins. It is very graphic to see the footage at the end of the film. The films approach did prove that they are killing the dolphins, but in an inhumane way and they laugh and smoke cigarettes over it. In interviews with the leader of Taiji’s Cove says that they kill them in one swoop to make sure there is no suffering. I agree with Jeannette Catsoulis, who states “an exceptionally well-made documentary that unfolds like a spy thriller, complete with bugged hotel rooms, clandestine derring-do and mysterious men in gray flannel suits.” The story unfolds slowly showing a series of clips and interviews and showing the team preparing to enter the cove of Taiji to plant the cameras to show the cruelty of the hidden site that no one has access too. The clips are a preparation to show the final scene that shows the gruesomeness of
it. 3. What was the film’s production method?* The film’s budget was set at 2.5 Million and only made 1.16 million. The method approach I have been seeing in the beginning was the introduction of Ric O’Barry and his life by showing past footage of O’Barry starting off talking about his work and a trainer of famous Flipper, and not knowing how captivity was causing them pain. It show a series of clips of the old footage of Flipper TV series in the 60s. The method was to show clips of Dolphins throughout the film. Excellent shots and voice overs. He talks about how the death of Kathy (Flipper) made him not want to pursue that style of training captive dolphins and decided to go against the industries that makes millions off them. He spent 10 years trying to build that industry up and now has been working almost 50 years stopping it. They talk about the IWC (International Whaling Commission) as having misguided views towards what they protect like whales and consider dolphins too small to count on their list for protection. The style of film is propaganda, they use footage and interviews to convince the viewer that all of this dolphin killing is wrong. They have evidence of dolphin killing with the hidden footage, but they do not have true facts to back their claims. They have no sources for what they claim. Lots of criticism is based on that alone. The style of the production for the film is grabbing a bunch of well-known surfers, divers, scientists, and anyone who are willing to help the dolphins to help the director collect footage and save the dolphins from slaughter. In the end, they all contribute to make the way inside the cove when no one is around and to set up hidden cameras and voice recordings to show what the fishermen are doing to the dolphins. 4. What is the audience’s experience?* The audience experiences vary on person to person. This film’s main intention is to show the horrible wrongs of the killing of dolphins and try to get an emotional reaction out of the viewer, who loves dolphins. I felt sadness, especially in the end on how the dolphins were killed without ease because they suffered and did not go out immediately. I am sure others feel a sense of sadness, but others don’t really care about the subject matter. I think that people got the idea, but they did not have legitimate resources backing their information. They also did not put subtitles on the Japanese people they have interviewed. I am sure there in some kind of reason behind it, but they should have included that in the film. It is very hard to work on a subject like this because there are tons of regulations to go around about filming in an area that prohibits it because of the nature of what is going on. The film draw a range of emotion’s to the audience, while in time it makes a lot of false claims throughout the film. Lucien Flores states “Extreme one-sidedness is prevalent in The Cove.” It evokes reactions from only viewers who are on the documenter’s side, and they do not show much of what the town of Taiji thinks.
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Sex, love, depression, guilt, trust, all are topics presented in this remarkably well written and performed drama. The Flick, a 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning drama by Annie Baker, serves to provide a social commentary which will leave the audience deep in thought well after the curtain closes. Emporia State Universities Production of this masterpiece was a masterpiece in itself, from the stunningly genuine portrayal of the characters of Avery and Rose, to the realism found within the set, every aspect of the production was superb.
the start of the film. Their quest takes them to the wreck of the ship Titanic which sank
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I chose to write about the very famous movie Jaws, directed by Steven Spielberg in 1975. Beginning with Act I, is what we call the set-up. The very first part of the set-up is the characters. The protagonist in the movie is Martin Brody, who is a police chief. Chief Brody’s wife is Ellen, the Shark hunter is named Quint, and the oceanographer is Matt Hooper. The mayor of Amity Island, Larry Vaughn, is also a significant character in the movie. The antagonist is Jaws, the great white shark. The relationship between the protagonist and the antagonist is not a good one. The protagonist, Martin Brody, is on a hunt for the antagonist, who is a sea monster and has gone on a killing spree, attacking many of the innocent victims on Amity Island. Next, the inciting incident sets up the central conflict in a movie. The story is set into motion with the attack and death of Chrissie Watkins. Chrissie is a young girl who was skinny-dipping with a boy after a party. This results in her getting brutally attacked and eaten. Her remains are found the next morning on the beach, by police chief Martin Brody. The town declares her death a “boating accident.” The film’s tone is frightening and definitely scary. The first turning point in the film is when a young boy, Alex Kitner gets eaten by the shark, while swimming with his friends. This leads to the decision of the police chief closing down the beaches for the safety of the residents on Amity Island. Alex Kitner’s mother issues a three-thousand dollar reward for the person who finds and kills the shark. This attracts many shark hunters from nearby cities to Amity Island.
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The whole documentary tackled consequences which also have consequences. This in turn somehow forms a chain reaction of consequences which are also interrelated. As a result of these, climate change is considered as an accelerant to instability and a catalyst for conflict.