Director: Louie Psihoyos
Poster
Cast: Richard O’Barry/Louie Psihoyos/Simon Hutchins/Kirk Krack/David Rastovich/Scott Baker
A dolphin’s smile is nature’s greatest deception, it creates the illusion they’re always happy.
Nothing is as misleading as the gorgeous scenery along the coast of Japan near Taiji. As an unsuspecting tourist I would not have the vaguest inkling of the brutal slaughter that takes place yearly right under people’s noses.
Produced by the Oceanic Preservation Society, “The Cove” tells the story of O’Barry’s mission to obtain hard evidence of what goes on in Taiji and exposed it to the public. “The Cove” is much more a spy thriller than just a record of that adventure. When the director Louie Psihoyos slipped into the little coastal town of Taiji, Japan, it was under cover of documenting the degradation of ocean reefs. Those men — perhaps cops, perhaps worse — trailed Mr. Psihoyos and his crew unrelentingly, determined to prevent anyone from filming the enormously lucrative dolphin capture and slaughter that support the town’s economy and employ its fishermen.
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