Blackfish (Blu-ray) PG-13
Never capture what you can't control.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 23 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 12, 2013
- Originally Released: 2013
- Label: Magnolia Home Ent
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Directed by | Gabriela Cowperthwaite | |
Composition by | Jeff Beal |
Entertainment Reviews:
3.5 stars out of 4 -- [The] documentary presents a compelling argument against the use of performing orcas in marine parks.
Washington Post
[The] delicately lacerating documentary, BLACKFISH, uses the tragic tale of a single whale and his human victims as the backbone of a hypercritical investigation into the marine-park giant SeaWorld Entertainment.
New York Times
Rating: 4/5 --
A troubling exposé of Sea World's hazardous entertainment trade.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
Blackfish is a heartbreaking documentary, forensically constructed by Gabriella Cowperthwaite, about the extreme psychological distress of killer whales kept in captivity and used to entertain crowds at venues such as SeaWorld in Orlando.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Rating: B --
Nothing says "family fun" like aquatic murder and animal mistreatment, right SeaWorld?
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The Reader (Omaha, NE)
[An] enthralling documentary....You come away with a sense of orcas' singular intelligence, to be sure, even their astonishing playfulness, but most of all their glorious power, and the majesty of their existence in their natural habitat.
Wall Street Journal
Rating: 3/5 --
With extensive interviews and an impressive amount of footage, Cowperthwaite stops just short of exploitation.
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Product Description:
In 2010, Dawn Brancheau, a veteran trainer at the well-known Orlando, FL, water park Sea World, lost her life when she was attacked by Tilikum, a bull orca (or "killer whale") weighing 10,000 pounds who was a regular attraction at the park. What made the incident all the more disturbing was this was not the first time Tilikum had turned on one of his trainers, and that the orca had also caused the death of a trainer in 1991 before he was purchased by Sea World. While orcas will sometimes attack humans in captivity, such incidents are extremely rare in the wild, leading some scientists to question the wisdom of keeping large, intelligent, and sometimes territorial creatures in captivity and expecting them to perform on a regular basis. Filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite began researching the lives of orcas in captivity after the death of Dawn Brancheau, and in the documentary BLACKFISH, she offers a powerful and provocative look at a remarkable breed of animals that humans still don't fully understand, and how the financial interests of water parks and resorts may run counter to the best interests of the animals they put on display. Taking its title from a Native American name for orcas, BLACKFISH received its world premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
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- UPC: 876964006187
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