BLACKFISH MOVIE CRAP!!

the-tabularium:

freedomfororcas:

theorcas:

marriedandbored:

So glad they’re not gonna give “BlackFish” in my area.. lol a lot of people say they can’t believe that this crap came out.

“Just another “Cove” movie that shows “everything wrong”with a park and yet.. they don’t point out the good of what It has done for conservation as well as manipulate folks instead of allowing them to make their own choices. Only stupid people are manipulated by this shit movie.

Whales are animals and they have their own mind, and?? People train them -people who have balls to know whales have a mind of their own and still train them get a big THUMBS UP!! Go ahead start a movement for what -wasted dollars and no results. Hello Corky, Kiska and Lolita still alive and in parks despite all the protests. you antis fail!

DONT BUY A TICKET????

… SORRY I WILL BUY A TICKET TO SEAWORLD BECAUSE I CAN AND I LIKE BEING UP CLOSE TO WHALES AND DOLPHINS
SO SHUT UP!!!

As you have not seen the film, I don’t think you really have the right to say what is and isn’t in it.

As someone that HAS seen the film, I can tell you that the film does not have an agenda nor is it overly persuasive. It isn’t vomiting up words about freeing all the whales or telling anybody that we absolutely must put them back in the ocean. It simply follows Tilikum’s life, with the addition of what else was happening with various other whales, parks and trainers at the time. The interviewees speak from personal experience and not from a made up pre formed agenda. All of this information is simply presented and the viewer is left to decide what to do about it.

And yes - whales are animals. The film does in fact commend trainers for their bravery and skill in their chosen career path. However, on the scale of mammals and intelligence, it has been scientifically proven that orcas are one of the closest beings to human intelligence in the world. They have parts of the brain that we don’t even have, relating to their ability to feel emotion. Therefore, they feel emotion so much more strongly than we do. That’s why so many of them in captivity are tormented. Tilikum, Kasatka, Keto, Orkid, Kyuquot. Taima, Kalina, and the 158 other unfortunate orcas who died at the hands of humans, who, had they or their parents been left in the wild, could still be alive today. Vicky, who died only a few days ago at 10 months old, most likely due to complications from her INBREEDING that would never have happened in the wild but was allowed to happen by SeaWorld.

The fact that Corky, Lolita and Kiska are still alive is basically a miracle. They are the expection to the rule. Most of the other whales in the collection are constantly ill, on medications, stressed, depressed and anxious.

Lolita is in reasonable health and her mother, Ocean Sun, is still alive today and would remember her, and most probably accept her if we were to release her. But we keep her locked away in an illegal sized tank, with only dolphins for company. Corky’s family are alive also, but it’s somehow still okay to keep her away from them? How would you like it if you were separated from your family, never to see them again? Many former trainers have commented on Corky’s tolerance of everything, and this is most probably one of the reasons she is still alive. Her tolerance. A part of her personality. It is quite obvious, through observation and statements from trainers that her level of tolerance is something that most of the other whales do not have. Just as a few people might be held in solitary confinement and ‘deal’ with it, others might  go absolutely crazy. Same goes for the whales.

And Kiska, completely alone. Kiska, who spends hours lifelessly floating at the surface.Orcas are highly social beings, their connections with each other are some of the strongest needs that they have. If you think she is happy where she is, you’re wrong. Marineland are under HUGE amounts of pressure at the moment to close. After the death of two belugas that they hid from the public, there has been a huge backlash towards them.

And, soon, they’ll all be dead in parks. We will never be able to replicate a natural environment for them, and they will always suffer because of it.

You can buy a ticket if you like, and no one, not even the film can stop you unless you want to stop, but the fact that intelligent, sentient creatures are dying for the purposes of you being ‘up close’ with them when you could so easily do that in the wild is on your conscience.

A+ commentary.

All awards for that commentary!!!

Perfect commentary.

Dear people who write long pseudo-intelligent rants about how ‘all humans are sheep’ (but I know better) in the Sheep tag,

I’m in the Sheep tag because I want pictures of fuzzy, adorable animals.

If I wanted to read your writing I would look under the ‘vaguely emotive’ tag, the ‘aspiring young writers’ tag, or the ‘middle class angst’ tags.

Thanks.