Behind: The Cove

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02/26/2019 Definately worth the watch to at least get an idea of what the 'other side' thinks. See more 02/22/2019 I am a fan of the Japanese culture and way of doing things, and was hoping this would be a good argument from the Japanese. But ithis film was filled with racism, (unproven) ï¿ 1/2facts,ï¿ 1/2Â? with a large side dish of imperialistic propaganda. This film was obviously coming from a place of pure racial hate. It was extremely disappointing to see. See more 10/25/2018 I love this film because it provides viewers with interesting content from a different perspective that is plausible! Westerners have clearly dramatized the situation in The Cove and not considered the consumer impact of pork beef and chicken! Japanese culture is beautiful. See more 09/21/2017 Exact line from this film, "If there wasn't a moratorium on whaling, "The Cove" wouldn't have been such a big deal." This is the sort of logic that the filmmaker uses throughout the film and tries to base everything on. Needless to say, it falls very short. While "The Cove" was a better film, by virtue of being professionally edited and produced, "Behind "The Cove"" is downright amateurish. The story jumps from topic to topic and point to point, it never really finds any rhythm. Jump cuts are used to piece together a narrative of evil protestors and rude demonstrators. I believe if the filmmaker just let the protestors and demonstrators speak for themselves, the message would actually have been stronger. Focusing on Japan's long standing traditions would made for a much much stronger case and a much more coherent film. "The Cove" focuses on the town of Taiji and the sale and slaughter of dolphins. This film seems to completely miss that point altogether, laying their focus on The Sea Shepard and their anti whaling propaganda, and leaves the dolphin sale and slaughter left on the table, unresolved. Instead focusing on unrelated legal and petty crimes of certain members of the Sea Shepard and Cove crews. I would've really liked a coherent response to "The Cove". This is not that. See more 09/09/2017 Technically it was poor but Keiko did not once address the real reason for the Taiji hunts and that is the multi-million dollar industry they gave because they trade in wild dolphins. It's very much more lucrative than the meat industry there yet she didn't raise it once. They also said tarps were used so that foreigners couldn't use photos to raise money. Throughout, most of the people spoken to, particularly in Taiji, were quite old and it was very clear that there is a massive hangover from losing the war all those years ago. Nearly every person spoken to had a chip on their shoulders about foreigners. I thought that the comment about whaling being 'spiritual' was hilarious. What is spiritual about making big money from selling live dolphins? They showed a clip of some dolphins in one of the captive pens and Keiko actually said the dolphins were being 'farmed'. So many of the comments from activists were included with the jerky editing technique (wow that was very bad) and completely out of context. Thanks Keiko, you did the anti-captivity and anti-whaling movement a big favour. If this is the best Japan can come up with to defend their blatant environmental crimes, it's very unconvincing. It was an exceptionally hard documentary to watch particularly towards the end because it was so damn boring. See more Read all reviews

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