image of killer whale at Sea-world
This documentary was a actually suggested to me and i thought I would give it a watch. I have never watched a Storyville documentary before but this makes me want to watch more of them.
This was a documentary about the killer whales at Seaworld and others it looks into the attacks and sometimes killings by the whales. It tries to explore how it was dealt with and who was at fault. It starts from the begging showing the audience how they originally got the whales to Seaworld centre which was a big shock to me as they were captured as babies from the wild which is a shocking thing for the audience to see. The documentary then goes on to explore the reported attacks and the efforts that went into covering them up.
This documentary is all talking heads and interviews with ex-trainers and environmentalists with found footage of the shows and sometimes of the attacks which i was not expecting. Although it is very much talking heads the found footage that they had was good. This documentary is very moving both for the people that died or got attacked and also the whales that are in captivity and clearly not happy.
Although this documentary is very thought provoking and very much worth a watch. it is very one sided its hard to see it not being the right side but it is very much one sided. There was no interviews from a current trainer or anyone from Seaworld itself.
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