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Blackfish Movie Analysis

In 1991, a tragic story occurred. Right during the show, the Tilikum killer whale, or just Tilly, who was born in the natural habitat ten years earlier, along with two other killer whales, dragged the trainer Kelty Byrne under the water. The trainer died, and her badly damaged body could only be reached after a few hours. Tilikum was then held at Sea land Aquarium in Canada; after the tragedy, this aquarium was closed, and all the whales were sold. For his shows, Tilikum acquired SeaWorld. In 2010, after the next show, the killer whale dragged under the trainer Down Branch, who was doing massage to the animal - she died. And the man who was trying to get to Tilly in the pool. But even after these incidents, SeaWorld did not even think of abandoning the orca performance. The Tilikum continued to speak.

Orcas have been a symbol of the American SeaWorld network for decades, for the sake of these trained mammals, spectators came to water shows and especially went to oceanariums. SeaWorld has largely changed the way Americans think of killer whales as dangerous inhabitants of the sea (like sharks) and turned them into extremely popular animals that children like and happily perform tricks to the delight of the public (just like dolphins).

It is the three deaths associated with Tilly's whale that the Blackfish film, released in 2013. He tells what the maintenance of killer whales in captivity leads to as animal rights advocates argue, attacks occur since, in confined spaces, whales become aggressive. Another argument of the animal advocate is a reduction in the life expectancy of killer whales, which in nature live on average 30-50 years. The killer whale Tilikum slammed into the water and slammed the water, winning the audience applause, but the blood behind it was cruel and cruel--"Tillicum" killed three people. A new documentary pursued its motives, revealing that losing freedom and rigorous training made it physically and mentally traumatized (Burford, Caitlyn, and Julie16).

　　"Tilikum" is the star of SeaWorld Orlando, Florida. Its most memorable "performance" is the sudden abhorrence during the 2010 performance, bringing trainer Dawn Brancheau I bite my waist and sway to the bottom and drowned. It also killed two people in 1991 and 1999 respectively. One was a trainer, and the other was secretly hiding. After the park closed, he jumped into the pool and might want to get close to the killer whale.

　　Experts say that wild killer whales don't kill people casually, so after the tragedy three years ago, Gabriela Cowperthwaite decided to follow the story of Tilikum and make a documentary about Blackfish. "Tilikum" was born in the wild. He was caught near Iceland in 1983. From then on, he lost his freedom and was forced to learn to play. He was forced to live in a small pool and was bullied by other killer whales (Cowperthwaite1).

　　Former Marine World employees frankly disapproved of the practice of detaining killer whales. Take Tilikum, for example. It has been swimming with the mother and family for hours and has been swimming in the ocean. Detaining it will make it hurt. There are also fragments of other killer whales that do evil or even hurt the trainers.

　　The documentary was released at the Independent Film Festival earlier, and it was well-received. The sound of the bombing of Orlando's Sea World increased. The film has been scheduled to be released in the United States and the United States in July. This is a sensitive moment for the SeaWorld Orlando, where Ocean World Group, which has 11 theme parks, plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange this year. I think this documentary should also be known to more people. It is clear from how the killer whale Tilikum was caught, trained for performance, some trainers accidentally attacked, later, and the lawsuit. In addition to sigh or sigh. The greatest enemy of all creatures is humanity (Pierce21).

In the inside, when the world of SeaWorld was the first time that human beings were killed, they had suspended business, but later they relapsed. Ignorant trainers play one by one, assuming you are injured, it doesn't matter, some individuals will replace your position. The next trainer will not know what happened to the former trainer. I think the lifestyle of the killer whale is very interesting. They are social animals and are mainly mothers. And when the child comes out, the child will follow his mother almost all his life. Different groups have different ways of standardizing and communicating.

The person who caught the whale inside was interviewed. He said that he only sent to kill the killer whale, but he didn't know why. When the killer whales are trapped, the adult male killer whales will be caught by a group of dead people, while the female killer whales will escape with the children. But the human beings are catching the killer whale children, so the last child was taken away, that is, the Tilikum in the documentary. At the moment when it was ready to be transported, the original killer whales did not swim but stayed to mourn.

Work cited

Burford, Caitlyn, and Julie Schutten. "interneural activists and the “Blackfish effect”:

contemplating captive Orcas’ Protest rhetoric through a coherence Frame." Frontiers in Communication 1 (2017): 16.

Cowperthwaite, Gabriela, and Gabriela Cowperthwaite. Blackfish. NFP, 2014.

Pierce, Ashley. "SeaWorld and the Blackfish: The Lack of Two-Way Symmetrical

Communication and Finding the Correct Message." (2015).21