Blackfish (2013)

You won't be disappointed!

Don't listen to the negative reviews

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Only parts of it are true. The majority of the film is false facts, and lies. I have had 3 friends who worked at the San Diego Seaworld, and they have told me first-hand facts about the falseness of this film. Two of them worked directly with the Orcas, and the accident that happened to the trainer, was indeed sad, but it was just that, an accident. If they had done better research for the film...then I may consider giving it a better review. But since they obviously didn't do enough research, then they will get the lowest rating possible on IMDb.

I was totally blind before watching Blackfish and other documentary 'The Cove". Both show how horrific it is for these marine life animals to be held in captivity. These animals are one of the most extraordinary in the world. The documentary shows you the depression it brings to them being locked away and taught to entertain us! The consequences for this are death in some cases. These trainers are basically killed by the owners of SeaWorld who were so deluded they believed whales were better off in captivity than in the wild. Blackfish is a great documentary, worthy of its awards.

Black fish was quite an eye-opening documentary. This documentary shows the black eye of what most people would consider a place far from sinister ways; Sea World. The documentary goes back to 1980s and gives details in sequential order of everything that sea world had done, both positive and negative. From giving trainers an outlet and letting them experience the beautiful bond between man and animal, to showing how killer whales are taken from their families as babies. Personally, the documentary taught me a lot both about Sea World as well as just how evil, and immoral it is to take these killer whales from their natural habitat and put them on display for billions in revenue. Moreover, once an accident happened that resulted in the death of a trainer; she was blamed, not the animal that had killed her. Although this whale, Tilikum, had quite the past of aggression.I really enjoyed the interviews they did with all of the past trainers who had worked at sea world. I felt that this really allowed the audience to connect with them and show how they were deceived into believing that SeaWorld was a great place. Most of the old orca whale trainers seemed to be very depressed when speaking on what goes on at SeaWorld, and how the orca whale's were treated. The thing most all of them had in common was that they felt so naive and blind as to what was going on behind the scenes. By the directors showing these emotion filled interviews it really showed that the old trainers believed what was going on at sea world was wrong and immoral. Though it was not with a trainer, the most emotional scene was an interview along withfootage from a man who helped take a baby orca whale away from it's family. He spoke of when they had finally gotten the baby orca whale by its self and the cries it made to it's mother and the cries the mother made back. "I knew what I was doing was wrong, and I couldn't help but cry." He began tearing up in the interview reliving the old memory.All of these SeaWorld's try to keep orca whale on trainer deaths on the down low, and if the public does make a big deal of it, they will blame the person it happened to. I feel that the movie did an excellent job displaying this with the death of Dawn Brancheau. After Tilikum did not preform a correct actions she withheld his food, this frustrated Tilikum. She then go into the water with him and began to pet him unaware that he would soon kill her. He bit her arm and drug her to the bottom of the pool and drown her. He then dismembered her arm and at it. SeaWolrd officials said that she was drug by her ponytail not by her arm, and that Tilikum did this in a playful manner not as an act of aggression. This is just one of three people that Tilikum has killed.Overall Blackfish is an excellent documentary, and I would recommend it to anyone who cares about the treatment of animals, or enjoyed or still enjoys going there. I would also recommend it to anyone who feels that they are treated poorly at their workplace, since these trainers weren't told they are risking their lives with such unpredictable animals. It is nice to know what really goes on behind the acts, and that the truth is these animals are not easy to control. These animals are highly intelligent, and should not be placed in captivity. Before I had seen this documentary I had no opinion on weather or not SeaWorld was a bad place, but now that I've seen it I would defiantly say this doesn't seem like such a great place to work.

A really difficult subject to write about, let alone make a film about. I've never been to Seaworld or seen an killer whale show. I had no outside knowledge of any of this before going into this movie. My only thought before I started the film was an ignorant one: just put the whales in bigger enclosures. Yet there's so much more than that. It's so blatantly obvious that orcas are incredibly intelligent creatures, maybe even more so then humans to some extent. They are social and they are very emotional and the bonds formed with their trainers are ones of love and companionship. It's beautiful to watch the whales and people get along so well. But, at the end of the day, they're wild animals. And with the conditions these poor creatures are kept in, it's no surprise there is retaliation. Hell, if a human was kept like that for decades, I'm sure they would've done a lot more to their captors. This documentary is one to watch. It's informative and it talks about a seriously relevant subject matter. Even though Seaworld are finally taking action, this is still a problem with many other parks and all other kinds of animals.