Blackfish: Documentary Analysis
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Blackfish
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As a child, there was nothing I looked forward to more than our yearly family trip to San
Diego. For a child born and raised in the desert, the sound of the crashing waves, seagulls squawking and the feeling of sand beneath my toes was pure bliss. My love for the ocean did not just cease at the sand, but extended to the dolphins that I would see swimming offshore and to everything else that I imagine lived deep in these huge blue waters. I was intrigued with the idea of a whole other world filled with millions of different types of species that the typical human would not get the opportunity to see let alone interact with. The idea of a special place that gave me the opportunity to interact one one with these beautiful creatures …show more content…
This astonished not only the media, but Seaworld’s very own staff. Why these attacks had been kept quiet from not only the public but employees as well became a real mystery. This became the introduction to the documentary, Blackfish.
Blackfish was produced in 2013 by film director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, a producer who questioned the real reasons behind Dawn Brancheau’s death. Through her determination to solve these unknown and at the time, unexplainable tragedies that Seaworld lacked to answer, she discovered information that opened the publics’ eye to this aquatic park in a much different way; the immoral treatment they endure upon of their animals. Blackfish became the one of the first formal introductions to the idea of how detrimental large aquatic life in captivity actually was. The documentary finally gave former Seaworld trainers the opportunity to publicly speak out and expose the secrets that they had been forced to keep about Seaworld and their cruelty for the first time. Stories included details about their experiences working with wild sea life animals’ as well as working within the park. Trainers were haunted by images they had seen and
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Blackfish
!
As a child, there was nothing I looked forward to more than our yearly family trip to San
Diego. For a child born and raised in the desert, the sound of the crashing waves, seagulls squawking and the feeling of sand beneath my toes was pure bliss. My love for the ocean did not just cease at the sand, but extended to the dolphins that I would see swimming offshore and to everything else that I imagine lived deep in these huge blue waters. I was intrigued with the idea of a whole other world filled with millions of different types of species that the typical human would not get the opportunity to see let alone interact with. The idea of a special place that gave me the opportunity to interact one one with these beautiful creatures …show more content…
This astonished not only the media, but Seaworld’s very own staff. Why these attacks had been kept quiet from not only the public but employees as well became a real mystery. This became the introduction to the documentary, Blackfish.
Blackfish was produced in 2013 by film director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, a producer who questioned the real reasons behind Dawn Brancheau’s death. Through her determination to solve these unknown and at the time, unexplainable tragedies that Seaworld lacked to answer, she discovered information that opened the publics’ eye to this aquatic park in a much different way; the immoral treatment they endure upon of their animals. Blackfish became the one of the first formal introductions to the idea of how detrimental large aquatic life in captivity actually was. The documentary finally gave former Seaworld trainers the opportunity to publicly speak out and expose the secrets that they had been forced to keep about Seaworld and their cruelty for the first time. Stories included details about their experiences working with wild sea life animals’ as well as working within the park. Trainers were haunted by images they had seen and