The Over Exaggerated Cove

In the documentary The Cove, the scenes of dolphins being slaughtered was very disturbing to say the least. It would be hard to think that anyone could watch this film and not be moved. However after about 30 minutes or so of watching the same thing over and over again, and hearing the same information about mercury the feeling of being manipulated began to grow. It is common practice in film making to reuse the same footage, but this seemed to be over done in The Cove. The film over all had some interesting facts that are believable but the over barring scenes of blood and dolphins flipping in the water might have had the effect of making one wonder if in fact was it as bad as the film made it out to be. By breaking up the slaughter scenes and putting a lot of preparation scenes in the middle made it look like these were happening many different days, when in fact it was more than likely a one day happening. This can be assumed by knowing that there were multiple cameras that most likely with that quality of production could only store a day or two. If it happened over days and weeks like the film wants you to believe the figures quoted could be believed. But if dolphins are like any other animals and fish they are not continually coming into the Cove area. Once the dolphins that live in that habitat are killed it would be a while before more would replace them. Unlike waling were the ships followed the group the Cove would have a limit to how many would come close to it. Putting the exaggerations of the film aside it is defiantly a concern for all compassionate people to want to put a stop to this needless slaughter even though only one species of dolphin in endangered and it is in New Zealand, the Maui’s dolphin. However it is doubtful that much will get done when the world watches nations killing their own people to genocide and do nothing. As history has taught us "the only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history", people will go about doing the same thing over and over again expecting deferent results. A prime example is the part in the movie where the Japanese have already experienced the results of mercy poising and are doing it again. How could anyone with children allow food that would harm their children to be served in their schools. But there was an incident in an American school recently that had a child bring a lunch to school with salad and other healthy foods, and an FDA agent in the school took the lunch away from the kid and made him eat the lunch the school was serving, a Big Mac and fries, that is not a whole lot better. When the dolphin becomes endangered then maybe someone will notice.