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Synopsis: Richard O'Barry was the man who captured and trained the dolphins for the television show Flipper (1964). O'Barry's view of cetaceans in captivity changed from that experience when as the last straw he saw that one of the dolphins playing Flipper - her name being Kathy - basically committed suicide in his arms because of the stress of being in captivity. Since that time, he has become one of the leading advocates against cetaceans in captivity and for the preservation of cetaceans in the wild. O'Barry and filmmaker 'Louie Psihoyos (I)' go about trying to expose one of what they see as the most cruel acts against wild dolphins in the world in Taiji, Japan, where dolphins are routinely corralled, either to be sold alive to aquariums and marine parks, or slaughtered for meat. The primary secluded cove where this activity is taking place is heavily guarded. O'Barry and Psihoyos are well known as enemies by the authorities in Taiji, the authorities who will use whatever tactic to expel the
Director(s): Louie Psihoyos
Production: Roadside Attractions
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 39 wins & 17 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.5
Metacritic:
84
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
PG-13
Year:
2009
92 min
$619,467
Website
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I recognize it. Do you?

I think it was the double

channels. Yep.

Can you go straight?

They're doing a circle.

Let's take a quick break.

Quick, quick, quick, quick.

- It's 766. It's the cop.

- Is it?

Louie, Louie, are you there?

Yeah, that's cool.

Set it down.

There was kind of a collective horror

when we started to see the footage.

It was mind-boggling.

They're doing it exactly

like they did with the large whales.

they're slaughtering

every one they can get.

Why didn't they set them free?

That question has kept me

awake for a long time.

I've watched them give birth.

I've nursed them back to health

when they're sick.

Had I known what I know now,

I would have raised enough money

to buy them away

from the Seaquarium

and set them free.

That would have been

the right thing to do.

I was buying

a new Porsche every year.

But I was as ignorant as I could be

for as long as I could be.

I didn't think about that

for a long time later.

Listen to me.

Our killing method

has been improved substantially,

and the fishermen in Taiji

are using specific-made knife

and put the... do that...

to the spine,

and then most of the animals

are killed instantly.

- Killed instantly?

- Yes.

And if they were killed

other than this method,

would that be cruel?

As I told you, I don't want to talk

about "if" stories.

I want to show you

some video that I just saw.

When and where did you take this?

I have to see this end in my lifetime.

Right now I'm focusing

on that one little body of water

where that slaughter takes place.

If we can't stop that,

if we can't fix that,

forget about the bigger issues.

There's no hope.

Subtitled By J.R. Media Services, Inc.

Burbank, CA

Everyone there,

show us your passport.

Hey. How are you?

Nice to see you.

So we went for...

for the children, you see.

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