“The Cove” (2009), is a powerful and exciting film documentary directed by Louie Psihoyos who is an ardent dolphin activist. Although the film has many valuable elements that flirt with all the breadth areas including art and expression, social and civic, and value and meaning, this examination of evidence will focus on the science and description breadth area by centering on the vague, filtered and deleted perspectives of the film’s antagonist, the Japanese, and how their questionable practices of slaughtering dolphins as a food source, mirror many of the slaughter house practices that are accepted in the United States.
The film takes a very convincing, yet extreme and subjective perspective as an attempt at convincing the audience of the questionable and inhumane practices of the slaughtering of dolphins by the Japanese people in the small…show more content… The film leads the audience into accepting the motivations of the Japanese government and fishing industry, as misleading the Japanese people into believing that they are eating whale meat, but all the while are eating a dolphin meat that has dangerous levels of mercury. The film even makes the claim that the Japanese government is aware of the toxic levels of mercury found in dolphins but continues to feed the dolphin meat to the children in their school lunch program. They dramatically add to this claim by showing sickly pictures of children who have mercury poison, as a way to further paint the Japanese as being evil. All of sudden, something just wasn’t making sense to me. I don’t think there is any culture that would deliberately poison their children and on a global perspective, is there a hypocrisy in the way that Psihoyos was judging and portraying the way other countries deal with hunger and food supply issues. Ignoring all the obvious cultural elements
