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Show all (5)In the 1960's, Richard O'Barry was the world's leading authority on dolphin training, working on the set of the popular television program Flipper. Day in and day out, O'Barry kept the dolphins working and television audiences smiling. But one day, that all came to a tragic end. "The Cove" tells the amazing true story of how Psihoyos, O'Barry and an elite team of activists, filmmakers and freedivers embarked on a covert mission to penetrate a hidden cove in Japan, shining light on a dark and deadly secret. The mysteries they uncovered were only the tip of the iceberg
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“The Cove’’ is a thriller in a classical sense. It’s the first of these movies to tell a story with more than stock footage and on-camera interviews. It also smartly refracts a major ethical, ecological problem through the prism of guerrilla events. The film follows the descent of members of the Colorado-based Oceanic Preservation Society on the small Japanese town of Taiji in order to install cameras to capture footage of local fishermen trapping and slaughtering dolphins. It opens with images recorded with a thermal night-vision camera of silhouettes swinging axes into slumping black mounds and gets a lot more graphic later on. (Full review)