The Cover Commentary

The movie "The Cove" is about the issue in Japan about capturing dolphins for the selling to amuesment parks and grocery for wrongly labeled whale meat. There are 23,000 dolpins killed every year for thier meat. This document is about a group of srong minded people led by Ric O'Barry, who are determinded to show the world what is going on in this small cove. This movie is trying to force the world into realiseing that 23,000 dolpins are being slaughterd, and we need to do something about it. There is a small ammount of time for the audience to draw their own conclustions, but then they jump into the hard truth and it is extreamly sad and horrifying. This film was made, however, to open peoples eyes to the horror and play on their emotions to make people try to do something about it. The killing of dolphins is illegal, so it would be hard to back up with evidence the reason why they are killing these dolphins. If they had found out the real reason these fisherman are killing then there might be a balance between both sides, however none of them were willing to be in an on-camera interview. The fisherman go to extensive terms to try to keep thier BIG secret. They do not want to world to know what they are doing and arrest people on bogus charges, even though what they are doing is ILLIGAL.