Watching this documentary "Blackfish" ...........

[marmar]

...... I regret every penny I have ever spent at Sea World.

[marmar]

1. About Blackfish, for those who have no clue what I'm talking about:

http://blackfishmovie.com/about


Blackfish tells the story of Tilikum, a performing killer whale that killed several people while in captivity. Along the way, director-producer Gabriela Cowperthwaite compiles shocking footage and emotional interviews to explore the creature’s extraordinary nature, the species’ cruel treatment in captivity, the lives and losses of the trainers and the pressures brought to bear by the multi-billion dollar sea-park industry.

This emotionally wrenching, tautly structured story challenges us to consider our relationship to nature and reveals how little we humans have learned from these highly intelligent and enormously sentient fellow mammals.

Read the original article that inspired Blackfish director Gabriela Cowperthwaite here

If you missed our live Twitter Q&A with Gabriela then you can catch up on all the tweets via Storify

While in London Gabriela also gave a talk at the Apple Store - the pocast can now be downloaded from the iTunes Store

Watch a clip of Blackfish director Gabriela Cowperthwaite and producer Manny Oteyza speaking to Dogwoof about the Blackfish journey:

[DesertRat]

2. Same here

Never again.

[ancianita]

3. If you haven't seen "The Cove," I recommend it, also. It won for best documentary.

It covers, not as thoroughly, some aspects of the dolphin entertainment industry, too.

[Marrah_G]

4. No one who watches the Cove or Blackfish will ever go to one of those theme parks again

[AmBlue]

8. You got that right.

It's so obvious, in retrospect, that is cruel and inhumane to keep these majestic animals penned up in such small spaces their entire lives. What on earth were we all thinking paying to see them "perform"? So sad....

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. I don't think I can watch the film

[arthritisR_US]

6. I had the same reaction. I also caught another

segment that followed the show which had Jack Hanna (sp?) on and boy did he piss me off. He was quite the apologist for
the monied interests.

[laundry_queen]

9. omg, I know, I totally watched that

and was like WTF? All I could think of was 'shut the fuck up already, we get it, you are being paid to represent seaworld DUH'. I think the host was getting irate with him as well. I thought Jack Hanna was some big conservation guy or something. Guess not.

[arthritisR_US]

12. Ya, I think the only thing Jack conserves is his

money!

[Tx4obama]

7. There is also another doc - Lolita Slave to Entertainment (for 40 years) animal right documentary

About the Seaquarium in Florida

[arthritisR_US]

13. I am so glad you posted this, I was trying to

find it from the other night. I watched it after I got fed up with Jack Hanna and it was well worth it! Blackfish, Lolita and the Cove are what will enlighten people not the gawd damn sea world parks!!

[yewberry]

10. Oh, no can do.

I'm already horrified at our treatment of cetaceans. Nuh-uh. Commodification of animals is beyond what I can stomach.

[me b zola]

11. It was extremely difficult to watch...

...but I did. Its time to shut these parks down.