TangO's Film: 'THE COVE'

Last week, I watched ‘ The cove’.

Former National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos directed the film. Portions were filmed secretly during 2007 using underwater microphones and high-definition cameras disguised as rocks.
‘The Cove’ is a 2009 documentary film that analyzes and questions Japan's dolphin hunting culture. It was awarded the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2010. The film is a call to action to halt mass dolphin kills, change Japanese fishing practices, and to inform and educate the public about the risks, and increasing hazard, of mercury poisoning from dolphin meat. The film is told from an ocean conservationist's point of view. The film highlights the fact that the number of dolphins killed in the Taiji dolphin drive hunting is several times greater than the number of whales killed in the Antarctic, and claims that 23,000 dolphins and porpoises are killed in Japan every year by the country's whaling industry. The migrating dolphins are herded into a cove where they are netted and killed by means of spears and knives over the side of small fishing boats. The film argues that dolphin hunting as practiced in Japan is unnecessary and cruel.

I only feel anger, when I after watching the ‘The cove’. But behind the anger, it caused objective thinking for some critics of this documentary.
I read some film reviews，then watched film again. Actually for a documentary of origin should be objective and fair. But in ‘the cove’, the personal’s individual above the objective facts.

在刚刚看完海豚湾时，就只感觉到愤怒。不过在愤怒背后，也引起一些影评对这部纪录片客观的思考。我观看了一些影评，然后将影片又看了几遍。实际上对于一部本应该以客观公正为本源的纪录片来说，海豚湾中的个人意志已经凌驾于客观事实之上。

In this film I can leaned how to make my documentary have life. In fact, from the initial intent of the shooting and the final screen point of view, ‘the cove’ likes an extended version of investing journalism. In simple structure and clear clues, to the sneak into bloody land and candid shooting become a traction audience's great suspense. We went into the truth of the step by step. The film guide us into a noble, then the bloodshed sea let us have a kind of can not escape the sense of guilt. This kind of sentimental power, let the audience cannot stay out. Simply means that touched the audience’s nerves.

在这个影片中我可以学到的就是要让我的纪录片活，那就一定要让它具有意义。其实从最初的拍摄意图和最终的银幕上看，海豚湾很像一部加长版的新闻调查。在简单的结构和明晰的线索下，对血腥之地的潜入和偷拍成为一个牵引观众的巨大悬念，我们身不由已地一步步走进真相，影片引导我们进入一个崇高的状态，然后血染成的大海就让我们具有一种无法逃脱的罪恶感，这种悲情的力量，让观众无法置身事外。简单的说就是触动观众的神经。