Blackfish

[brigid]

Growing up my family always had wolfhounds. They are these huge, majestic dogs with a long and storied past starting off as war and sheep dogs and eventually being revitalized as pets. my father always refused to teach them tricks outside of sitting, staying, and house training, as he felt like it was demeaning to make them behave like circus

Comments

[cris]

Whenever I've seen ads for that film, it's usually somewhere near ads for Leviathan and it keep making me think that they should be paired up in a double bill about how little we understand of the oceans and its environs and how much we still fuck it up.

[brigid]

wow that looks really visually impressive! (also slightly nauseating)

i've also heard "the cove" is a really great documentary in terms of getting one's ire up about how we treat the ocean.

[dancer]

Thanks for sharing!

We did go to Seaworld once (Orlando) but steered clear of the Shamu stuff. Just doesn't sit right with me. We did do the behind the scenes tour though. They do a lot of marine life rehab there, mostly a lot of sea turtles that are hurt in boating accidents.

I was quite conflicted about them, because (at least the Orlando location) does a lot of good work in animal rehab, and is the only place in that region set up to do that kind fo work. They said, that they do release back to the wild when able. The Shamu thing though, just sad/wrong.

I definitely need to check out this movie!

[atalanta]

wow, I had no idea.