The documentary Blackfish was a very interesting film, the film was about the proclaimed “family-oriented” theme park Sea World and all the important aspects of the business. Also, some of the facts in the film were disturbing. One of the saddest scenes in the film was the orca hunters capturing the whales, they intended on taking the baby whales away from their families to be shipped to one of the Sea World locations just to be made apart of an amusement act to entertain the public and to make a profit. I don’t believe under any circumstances that someone or something should be taken away from their home or natural habitat by force, that in my opinion is inhumane. Sometimes as human beings we forget that we are not the only living organism on earth who have emotions, personalities, and most important things we care about such as family. Animals also have similar things we as humans have but it is expressed differently through their own communication
. One of the orca research specialist said that since each whale is from different areas of the world ,they have established their own communication within their own habitat In addition, when the whales are captured they are sent into captivity with other whales who are not from the same area and it potentially dangerous because it creates chaos between each other that result to violence that could be deadly. Us as a human take things for granted, we all have had a point in life where we do things unconsciously because we believe that it doesn’t affect the people that we care about or the people around us then we see no harm in doing unconscious things. The prime example would be the orca hunters, they thought that it was okay because it was to take the baby whales away from their families because it was their job, so they could provide a living for themselves and their family. But they never thought about the harm they were causing the whales until it was too late to bring them back.
On a lighter tip .one thing, I enjoyed about the film was that the filmmakers did a great job at exposing a lot of truths about Sea World and how they would try to cover up many of the scandals that happened between the trainers and the whales. A company that claimed to be family-oriented business should’ve had much more respect for their whale instructors and should’ve been honest with their employees about all the incidents that happened, so then they could use extra precautions with training the whales if they were truly concerned about their employees. Ultimately, the trainers were risking their lives, training probably one of the most dangerous animals in the world the killer whales and by the company not constantly given each trainer updates about how to interact with them is unacceptable and irresponsible because they were setting up their trainers for failure that could have killed them. Furthermore, Sea World is horrible company every time they were asked to speak publicly about the scandals they would cover up each story by saying senseless such as the trainers didn’t use proper procedures to interact with the orcas or summarize the story to stage it as an accident, when that was totally false not only did they lie to their employees, they lied to their customers as well. No company should be so concerned about their reputation to the point that they have sabotaged their employees and customers that is just completely selfish and dishonorable, then, in the end, they will be the very people who demolish their own company’s reputation.
Overall ,the entire film was great and enlighten me because I never really thought about how animals get to the zoo or aquarium until I watched this film that gave insight on what really happens for them to get there, instead of feeding people lies or taking advantage of people who are not as educated on the topic of animals as experts in the field. The entire film displayed several instances of implicit and explicit bias and objectivity. The filmmakers did a great job with making a well-balanced combination of implicit and explicit bias and being objective, nothing was overused. The film conveys these things by using stock footage such as clips of news reports and statistics. Also, the documentary itself is an example of implicit and explicit bias and objectivity because they are interviewing the former trainers and former orcas hunters about their experiences and morally their viewpoints on the different scandals that occurred at Sea World.