Year: 2009
Region: USA
Type: documentary | adventure | thought-provoking | sentimental | angry | uneasy
Director: Louie Psihoyos
Starring: Mandy Ray Krusek | Kirk Clark | isabel lucas
Feeling:
The beautiful scenery like oil painting, the shadow of the mixed night, the endless sadness of the Red Sea and the sweet and bright smile of dolphins are all irreparable. Everyone will be sad about it.
This is a global era, a global village, and no one knows how deep the water is behind the economy. Behind the prosperity of this world is deep indifference, and behind the abundance is the darkness of human nature. Those beautiful and beautiful loves are alienated into the mirror flowers and moons displayed by the media, and one lie after another makes modern people obsessed.
After watching this film, I couldn't say a word, but I felt very tired and fell asleep.
I didn't cry during the whole movie. The moment I opened the Word document to write a film review, tears flowed down like water.
The beautiful bay with beautiful scenery has become an unfathomable slaughterhouse. There is no worldly desire, no warmth, only machinery, which is terrible. Facing the massacre near the end of the film, those bloody fragments overflow, and 23 thousand lives die every year, a bright nightmare, mixed with blood. Before their bones are cold, they have been labeled with various whale meat, supermarkets, dining tables and even primary and secondary school canteens. ...
How can modern people who claim to be civilized be pampered? What is added to nature today will one day return to mankind itself.
When the president of the Japan Whaling Association, who was defending the killing of dolphins a second ago, saw Rick's candid video of killing dolphins, he asked: When and where was this taken?
Hey, just like those famous sayings popular this year, "Which unit are you from?" "Do you speak for the party or for the people?" ……
The game of various forces behind the truth, they exhausted the available high technology and risked their lives. In thirty-five years, Rick and his team approached the truth bit by bit, awakened ignorant people bit by bit, and tried to give back the power and love of life to themselves bit by bit. Looking back 1956, the outbreak of Minamata disease, and even the melamine incident in China, natural disasters and man-made disasters are all man-made.
"IWC is a useless organization, but it is also the only organization recognized by the United Nations." "Countries are good at talking, smiling and shaking hands."
At today's Copenhagen conference, the climate conference has turned into a political confrontation, with political forces of various countries taking turns to go into battle, and human beings showing off their so-called wisdom in front of nature. How noisy and ridiculous.
The film said: I never want to believe that the government or institutions can solve any major problems ... All social changes come from the passion of the people. ...
Bloody dolphin bay.
This is not just a shame for the Japanese.
This is a shame for all Asia and all mankind.
Maybe we can't "change the world according to human nature", maybe we can't have financial resources and technology, but one day, when we need to do something for the ecology and the dignity of life, a firm idealist's heart is very important.
The end of the movie. Rick, carrying the screen recording the truth of the massacre, stood in front of the well-dressed representatives of the International Whaling Association, and touched the earth with his persistence, ideals and persistence in the crowded but increasingly indifferent world in Tokyo.
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I don't want to recall and introduce those cruel details. The earth-shaking disgust for the whole human race once swallowed me up instantly, and the bloody scene made me have nightmares again and again. Any interpretation of film shooting angle and narrative skills is also difficult for me now. Add something that has nothing to do with the film:
1. This year marks the 72nd anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre.
If there is no idealism, no patriotism, no insistence on love and life dignity. Nothing in our life today can be achieved.
2. 20th anniversary of things that can't be mentioned.
A retired white-haired teacher suddenly said this to me in his hospital bed. The class of' 87 is the most backbone and outstanding student I have brought up. They have a stronger sense of social responsibility than you and dare to speak. China needs people who dare to speak. After a long time, he was silent again and said, however, many of them have left.
Keep your distance from the government, power and money.
This distance is the only way for us to get inner peace.
3. After this year,
I won't go to the dolphin show after this year.
Dolphin's smile is nature's biggest deception, which creates the illusion that they are always happy.
When you see the despair behind the dolphin's smile and know that every cheer is a torture to the dolphin's keen hearing, then in the underwater world, you will feel the cruelty of heartbreaking.
From this year on, I hope everyone around me and I can live a simple life. Although it is more and more difficult for us to live in the consumer culture under the advocacy of major media, ideological infiltration, cynicism and populism. ...
From this year on, stick to your ideals and see the power of NGOs and citizens. Don't be credulous or blindly follow.
One day, the world will be better.
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Dolphin Bay occurred in Taidi Village, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. Tens of thousands of dolphins are driven here by humans every year during the migration season. Most of them were secretly killed by local fishermen, and a few who survived were sold at high prices and sent to aquariums around the world. Most of us are deceived by the "smile" of dolphins in the aquarium. In fact, they are not happy.
Even for someone like me who has never had a pet, the lethality of Dolphin Bay far exceeds the previous estimate (I swore on the spot that I would never go to the aquarium to watch the dolphin show again after watching it), so it is hard to imagine how much shock this documentary will bring if it is an animal protector or an audience who usually likes pets.
However, a strong and distinctive video work often leads to disputes proportional to its scale, such as Zhao Liang's visit, Chen Weijun's invitation/voting for me and Michael? The same is true of all Moore's works. This environmental documentary about dolphins-although the voice of support has greatly overwhelmed the voice of doubt, a few questions that hit the key point are enough for each of us to reflect: Is it just because the "protagonist" of this film is a beloved dolphin that has aroused our sympathy for Yang Hai? If the slaughterhouse is full of chickens, ducks, pigs, cattle and sheep, will we have the same strong indignation and the possible actions after the indignation?
However, this just shows that the Dolphin Bay has achieved the expected effect from another angle: at least, people begin to think about the paradox covered by the food chain, food industry and environmental protection behavior, and then think about whether their behavior is appropriate. In fact, when the Copenhagen conference ended in the fog of Rashomon, when carbon emission reduction was struggling, and population and pollution continued to erupt, the words of the virtual Agent Smith in The Matrix became more and more alarming: "Humans are pests."
In contrast, documentaries with the same theme, such as An Inconvenient Truth, are too old-fashioned, serious, gentle and powerless in front of Dolphin Bay, although the data are meticulous and the logic is strict. No matter how great the idea advocated by the latter is in science, and whether the killing of whales by Yamato people is a traditional mourning, this documentary is perfect and inflammatory enough to be listed as a classic example of documentary, which can be put into teaching materials to study how it surpasses the ingenious narration of many excellent films as a documentary.
At the beginning of the film, it was a spy film technique, and "sneaking into private territory in forbidden areas" constituted a great suspense. On the one hand, it quickly mobilized the audience's interest, on the other hand, it also constituted the narrative main line of the film. The main line of this story is completed in a typical Hollywood way from beginning to end, with many shots and fast pace. The strong resistance of Japanese local government and fishermen makes the contradiction stand out. Even if we relax other clues, as long as we return to this main line, the audience's eyes will never move away.
Dolphin Bay is a work that uses traditional montage techniques to the extreme-the legendary story and life choice of the protagonist Rick. Focusing on the internal and external struggles of IWC (International Whaling Commission), the game between Japanese whaling tradition and political and economic interests, and the lies that the government, scientists and fishermen support each other and deceive themselves, this paper views and analyzes the dangerous edible value of dolphin meat from a scientific perspective. And the "dolphin chain" flowing from Taidi Village Bay in Wakayama County to all parts of the world ... In an hour and a half, the audience faced an amazing amount of information, and clearly analyzed the struggles about the dolphin bay between the constant montage switching, thus building a complete image world.
Every clue in "Dolphin Bay" is full of great enthusiasm and sincerity of filmmakers. It is because of their full and ubiquitous feelings that they can get together in the last 15-20 minutes of the film and play the strongest emotional voice. In fact, the task of the people in the film-shooting the scene of the dolphin being slaughtered, is only five minutes, but with all the information and emotions in front, these five minutes are enough to make people feel heartbroken and depressed. After the heavy exhibition, the end of the film just provided an outlet for the audience: Rick hung a LCD screen on his chest and walked silently around the IWC venue-it is no exaggeration to say that some audience applauded spontaneously after seeing it.
Rick is the hidden clue of this documentary, and his life legend is the soul of Dolphin Bay. As a successful dolphin trainer, he said that it took him 65,438+00 years to build a dolphin show that swept the world's aquariums, and it took him 35 years to destroy it. This kind of awakening of his intention to mend after a sheep is dead is the driving force for everyone in the film to follow him to the mysterious bay of Taidi Village, and it is also the light of human nature reflected in this film. Rick's life just confirms a very infectious sentence on a poster of Dolphin Bay: "Humans are the biggest threat to dolphins and their only hope."