The Cove

The Cove is essentially a documentary about how the Japanese are killing dolphins by the hundreds. The camera and the side we are supposed to be following is the sides of the Americans that are trying to stop it from happening. They show footage of Japanese trying to get Americans arrested and trying to stop cameras from showing what’s actually happening. This movie doesn’t at all allow the viewer to come up with their own opinion because the whole movie is trying to use shock factor and human’s weak side of pity to get them to believe what they are saying is true. They never show the Japanese side. All they show is dolphins dying. As a viewer, I feel like they are trying to hide something, also as a viewer, I don’t buy into pity that’s pushed so hard on me, I want to be able to have pity for cases that deserve it, not ones that are just because someone loves sea world too much. The opinion that they are presenting has lots of video footage to try to get their point across. From the first second of the film, the makers try their hardest to get you to like dolphins so that later when they show them dying that it would hit you harder. Just like I said earlier in the paragraph, they spend all their time showing images trying to play on people’s pity instead of presenting facts, it preaches to the converted.