Blackfish(2013)
dir. Gabriela Cowperthwaite
What a captive orca's violence was telling us.
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The story of Tilikum, a captive orca involved in multiple trainer deaths, used to examine the sea-park industry's treatment of highly intelligent, social animals.
Why it’s here
Uses one whale's death to ask a harder question than whether it was an accident — what decades alone in a tank does to any intelligent, social animal kept there for a marine park's bottom line.
Where This Film Lives
- Setting
- North America
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