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Blackfish [Blu-ray]

Jeffrey Ventre (Actor), Carol Ray (Actor), Gabriela Cowperthwaite (Director, Producer) Rated:
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Format: Blu-ray
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 4,565 ratings
IMDb8.1/10.0
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Contributor Jennifer Darling, John Fiedler, Manuel V. Oteyza, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, John Hargrove, Tom Jones, Eartha Kitt, Sherry Lynn, Howard Garrett, David Spade, Mercedes Rodriguez, Lori Marino, Patti Deutsch, Mark Simmons, John Jett, Jess Harnell, Jeffrey Ventre, Estefania Rodriguez, Suzanne Allee, Steve Huxter, Kim Ashdown, Dave Duffus, Patrick Warburton, Christopher Porter, Samantha Berg, Mickie McGowan, Andre Stojka, Wendie Malick, Rodger Bumpass, Ken Balcomb, Steve Susskind, David Reynolds, Joe Whyte, Robert Clotworthy, Carol Ray, Bob Bergen, John Crowe, Roger Allers, Danny Mann, Dean Gomersall, Eric Walters, Stephen J. Anderson, John Goodman See more
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Killer whales are beloved as a majestic, friendly giant yet infamous for it's capacity to kill viciously. BLACKFISH unravels the complexities of this dichotomy, employing the story of the notorious performing whale Tilikum, who-unlike any orca in the wild-has taken the lives of several people while in captivity. BLACKFISH expands on the discussion of keeping such intelligent creatures in captivity.

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  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 1.69 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 27811485
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Gabriela Cowperthwaite
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Blu-ray, Widescreen, Closed-captioned
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 30 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ November 12, 2013
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Jeffrey Ventre, Carol Ray, John Jett, John Hargrove, Samantha Berg
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Manuel V. Oteyza, Gabriela Cowperthwaite
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Magnolia Home Ent
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00EL6ACOI
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 4,565 ratings

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4.7 out of 5 stars
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Compelling, informative, insightful, powerful, and impossible to ignore.
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Compelling, informative, insightful, powerful, and impossible to ignore.
I first watched this documentary as part of a 12th grade English class assignment. It immediately caught my intellectual attention, and I've watched it several dozen times ever since. The extraordinary amount of insight, information, raw footage, interviews, take your pick, that the crew went to all the trouble of to create this powerful documentary about Orcas makes it impossible to ignore. SeaWorld and all other sea parks that publicly display captive Orcas need to be permanently put out of business, all the money they've gained over the years should be sent to the families of the trainers who've lost their lives to these otherwise magnificent creatures, and all their Orcas should be euthanized knowing that they can't adapt to the wild after living their lives in captivity. R.I.P. Tilikum and Dawn Brancheau.
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Samantha Drake
5.0 out of 5 stars I've watched this SO many times
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2024
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This film has absolutely taken over my mind. I watched it first in a class and I will watch it a million times more. It really opened my eyes on the treatment of animals in captivity and I loved it. I have showed it to many friends and family members and they also enjoyed it. For me I believe it was put together very well and conveys it's point extremely well. 10/10 recommend.
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nyc
5.0 out of 5 stars Well Done Documentary About Orcas/Killer Whales
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2023
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Blackfish is a well done documentary about orca/killer whales. The show takes you chronologically from the 1960s/1970s when capturing these majestic creatures were popular until a decade ago when Sea World had a trainer killed in 2012. The movie explained how intelligent and emotional killer whales are, starting from how they react to humans chasing them to their behavior in captivity. If you are intelligent, you would know living in captivity for any animal including humans is never fun or healthy to the captives. This is the basic point of this documentary and the great thing is this film has plenty of footage and evidence to prove this point. The most amazing footage was watching a male trainer being grabbed by his leg and dragged down to the bottom of the pool several times by a killer whale. It shows how dangerous it can be to work with killer whales in captivity.

The point of this film that captivity is wrong reminds me so much of a Twilight Zone episode when a human was lured into an environment that represented a home only to learn he was placed into a containment in a zoo and not a real home. He was shocked and hated the idea that he was in a space being watched by observers outside the cage even though the place looks like a home. If you would not want to be in this situation, why would you think another intelligent animal would want this?

I share the point this movie makes about animals in captivity. However, I have to admit I went to Sea World once in my life and enjoyed the shows and seeing all the sea creatures in the park. It was very educational for me and it does help me to love sea creatures due to my experience of seeing them. Without seeing these beautiful creatures in person, I don't know if I would be as appreciative of their existence. I want these animals to be safe and healthy, but I would not want Sea World to disappear. It would be great if Sea World would watch this film and work out a plan that would not tear apart killer whales' families and offer them much larger environments for these creatures to live in even if they refuse to release them. Of course, releasing them back into the wild would be great, but I am not sure captive animals would know how to survive in the wild when they have been domesticated for so long. I question if these killer whales would know how to hunt when they no longer have a family. Anyway, I think this film was very educational and Sea World should be more honest and do a better job to keep both humans and animals safe. I would not want any more animals such as killer whales to ever be pursued for captivity again. I prefer parks that rescue animals. Watch this film if you know nothing about killer whales.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 👍
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2024
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Adriana Garcia
5.0 out of 5 stars Great information source
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2024
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I enjoyed the movie it definitely opens yours eyes and make you realize how much the orcas suffer at Sea World.
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Sara Reader
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely necessary for understanding our responsibility to other intelligent beings
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2014
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I was astounded by Blackfish in a number of different ways.

1. Horrifying. We watched together as a family and all agreed that it was gut wrenching to learn and to really have it brought home that captive animals like the majestic Tilikum, instead of being honored and revered are continually, brutally and unrelentingly abused. From the outset when he was ripped from his mother and his pod as an infant and the members of his community protested and attempted to rescue him (yes, you heard me) to the final view of Tilikum, alone in a pool isolated from his own, we were horrified for him and what is says about who so many humans are. A day does not go by now when i don't become active on the net, for majestic creatures, in general, and for Tilikum, in particular. The day he is released into a life of freedom and care will be a spiritually important one for reversing the bleak cruelty that marks the souls of the perpetrators.

2. Relevance to all that occurs when money means more than life. A remarkable documentary about why the abuse suits the
conglomerate of owners, likely, shareholders and "benefactors" of Sea World. The continual barrage of disinformation, propaganda,
misrepresentation and distortion about the needs of marine mammals, why such a large majestic animal would attack his "handlers and the placing of blame for their deaths on the human handlers. Actually, I partly agree, since they went along with keeping Tilikum in captivity, lying about the effects of that captivity on the health and welfare of the the animals in their charge and putting on smiling faces while forcing a wild animal to act like a cute little pet for millions of shrieking customers/visitors to the park (or zoo).

The argument that people can learn to love these animals and fight for their welfare is specious, since the animals' welfare is kept from the audience with disinformation and misinformation.

3. Excellent portrayal of the mechanisms and issue of behavior modification. Excellent for general psychology classes, social psychology classes, psychology of prejudice classes (many humans think it is ok to abuse animals, because they are lower down on the evolutionary scale than we, the most dominant animal). I am a social, environmental and clinical psychologist and will be showing this to my undergraduate classes for the environmental issues, misapplication of behavior modification (yes, it works to deprive a less dominant living being of food to get them to behave as you wish), it just isn't ethical, Sure you can control the food supply and make an animal do what you want. Nothing new in that, It's just vulgar to do so. Schedules of reinforcement, drive states, shaping and chaining behavior, its all there, just in a disturbing and fascist format. Nothing new in human behavior in the human-human equation or the human-animal one, just bleak and grotesque in 2013. Moral and ethical behavior, do the owners, stockholder of Sea World have any/ Tea Party who cares so much about core American Values, where are you in this question? No where to be seen, of course.

4. Tilikum deserves better. Punished due to his enormous size from infancy on, deprived of stimulation and kept captive in a way if done to humans would be tantamount to keeping someone in a 5X3 dark box without food for 14-16 hours a day for years and years from the age of one and then blaming him/her for winding up unbalanced or angry, or more likely poorly socialized. People have made Tilikum the culprit rather than the end point of incredible human stupidity, brutality and indifference to the beauty, authority and power of this special creature. Tiikum is prologue to the consistent way the human money machine is grinding up the living land and seas and the way that humans who care about capital over life deny the rights of the living so they can own, profit and violate the living.

See it for yourselves for it offers these perspectives not by preaching, but , by documenting and much more. Tilikum, This is review is a love note to you. I will work so one day you will be free of the burden of doing the "man's" work which puts you and those around you at risk, every day.

You really aren't a fish, I know that, but a majestic mammal with a coherent community and language, who, in the wild could have
captivated us and challenged the seas. May the hopes, actions and many dreams of those who have learned about your plight and who care about allowing you a natural and supportive outcome be carried on the wind and change the direction of your life and ours.
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Rita Bossmann
5.0 out of 5 stars DVD
Reviewed in Germany on March 2, 2024
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Diesen Film sollte man sich anschauen.
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talbot
5.0 out of 5 stars ou la vie des animaux sauvages en prison
Reviewed in France on March 11, 2020
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j'ai acheté ce produit parce que je l'avais déjà vu et beaucoup aimé bien que triste et montrant ce que l'homme a de plus mauvais en lui. Attraper des orques bébés sachant qu'ils restent avec leur mères jusqu'à 2 ou 3 ans, tuer si besoin les adultes qui défendent les petits relève de la cruauté et révèle un appât du gain sans frein. comment peut-on faire une choses pareil, comment peut-on mettre en cage des animaux sous prétexte que le public est content de voir ces animaux abîmés par l'emprisonnement la promiscuité avec d'autre orques qui ne font pas parti du groupe auquel ils appartenaient sachant qu'il va forcément y avoir des frictions qui peuvent aller jusqu'à la mort ? je ne cautionne pas ces parcs et malheureusement aucun orque ne peut être relâché parce qu'ils vivent en groupe et qu'ils ont peux de chance de le retrouver. il faudrait juste que quelques lois soient passées obligeant les dirigeants de ces parcs à construire un habitat correcte autre que celui qu'ils ont en captivité, des endroits qui donneraient directement dans la mer avec peut-être des dispositions qui leurs redonneraient envie d'être gentils ce qu'ils sont quand ils sont en liberté. j'ai toujours été pour la protection des animaux mais l'homme a trouvé là un moyen de gagner de l'argent et si on écoute les anciens dresseurs aucun d'eux n'avaient les compétences requises pour s'occuper de ces animaux tout ce qu'ils faisaient c'est leur apprendre des tours et leur donner une gourmandise si la performance était là. il serait bon que les gens qui vont voir ces spectacles se demandent s'ils aimeraient être à leur places, jouaient les pantins et attendre un peu d'attention. une femelle est morte pendant un spectacle et seul quelques membres du public l'ont vu mais comment les soigneurs n'ont-ils pas vu ce qui se passaient ? il faut mettre fin à ce carnage à cette foire qui consiste à amuser grands et petits en leur rappelant dans quelles conditions les captures se font et en réveillant leur conscience. ALLER A CES SPECTACLES NE PEUT QU'ENCOURAGER LES PROFITEURS à CONTINUER ET SURTOUT C'EST UNE FAÇON DE LEUR DIRE : MERCI POUR CE BEAU SPECTACLE. "MêME S'IL A SANS DOUTE COÛTER LA VIE à 4 OU 5 ADULTES LORS DE LA CAPTURE DES Bébés." il faut faire plus de bruit afin que chacun sache ce qui se passe avant et après leur captures et qu'enfin ce supplice s'arrête. qui sait ce que tilikum a enduré en captivité et pourquoi il a hérité du surnom D'ORQUE TUEUSE". ceux qui ont vu ce film et qui ont accepté de dire STOP. mais peu sont ceux qui le diront et beaucoup afficheront l'orque en peluche acheté dans ces parcs à thèmes sans honte. où se trouve l'humanité dans tout ça ? où se trouve la compassion la sensibilité pour les souffrances que les animaux ressentent et qui les rend agressifs jusqu'à tuer ceux qui s'occupent d'eux ? que chacun se pose la question : est-ce que j'aimerai que mon chien ou mon chat soit traité de la sorte ? est-ce que j'aimerai qu'on me traite de la sorte ?
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K. D.
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended
Reviewed in Canada on January 15, 2017
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A very enlightening documentary on killer whales in captivity. How after decades there has never been a recorded case of a killer whale attacking a human in the wild. But in captivity on the other hand, there's been numerous attacks and deaths. But the big cover up on the part of the marine parks is why most people never hear of it. One case mentioned in this documentary I remember hearing about it, it took place in the early 90's I had heard it on the news which told only the cover story that the park said, that the trainer had accidentally drowned. But the truth was she was attacked and killed.
Some of the reasons for aggressive whales in captivity include poor living conditions of the whales, disrespect, and whales are meant to be free. They suffer more by being in captivity than most other animals. For instance parks say that orcas generally live only 15-35 years. But that's actually only how long they survive in captivity. Free in the wild they can live as long as humans do, up to 70-80 years or longer. In captivity they are so unhappy which explains the attacks and their tremendously shortened lifespan. They are meant be free to patrol the oceans not to be held prisoners in a man made marine park.
This in-depth documentary goes deep into the captive lives of these very highly intelligent animals. The cover ups, the irresponsibly of the corporate owned parks that care more about the profits than the safety and wellbeing of the trainers and the whales. There's so much more to this story. Do yourself a favour and Watch for yourself, GET INFORMED. It's the only way to get things changed.

Special features include extra interviews with researchers, doctors, former trainers and employees of parks.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 水族館で飼育すること自体については、良くも悪くもない。
Reviewed in Japan on July 30, 2015
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2013年に公開された「Blackfish」
民間経営のシーワールドの不正行為とシャチの倫理的な問題を描いた作品。個人的には、シャチを盲目的に好きだったけれど、その危ない側面を直視しようと観賞した。けれども、かえって好感度が増した。また、水族館で飼育すること自体については、良くも悪くもないと思った。

結局、「Blackfish」は、１頭の雄シャチを都合の良いように扱ってきた一部の水族館の問題を切り取った作品で、他のシャチや水族館全ての問題ではない。

野生のシャチは、社会性が強く、群れで行動し、学習し続けるので、焦点の的となった雄シャチを今更野生に逃がしても、野生に適応できないかもしれない。また、その雄シャチのおかげで、多くのシャチを水族館内で繁殖させることができ、多くの水族館でシャチを見せることができるので、それを通じて一般市民への教育・普及に貢献している側面もある。犠牲となった雄シャチとトレーナー達は気の毒だけれども、それによる「正の波紋」は評価されても良いと思う。

シャチはやっぱりすごい、というか、とても心のある動物。ということを再認した。
結局、都合の良いように扱われてきた雄シャチが強い不満を募らせて、トレーナーを死に至らしめるほどの事件を起こしたけれども、これはシャチの意図的な行動で、強い不満を行動で示したに過ぎない。本当に獰猛なら、ショーよりも長い時間を費やしているトレーニング中に、人を殺す事故を何度も起こすだろう。実際に野生下でもほとんど人を襲わないし、こちらから過剰に干渉しない限り、危害を加えない（荒い性格のシャチなら、そうでもないかも）。

シャチを飼育している水族館は、シャチの内面性をもっと公表しても良いと思うし、飼育によるシャチの犠牲とトレーナーへの危険性を公平に示せれば、一般市民も納得できるのではないだろうか。都合の良い所だけを出すから、問題になるのであって、誠実に良い面・悪い面両方を示せればいいと思った。
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5.0 out of 5 stars Parfait
Reviewed in France on November 30, 2023
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A voir absolument, cela devrait être un classique à faire voir et revoir pour réaliser ce que nous faisons subir aux animaux.
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