hannah-71256 Especially as current events unfold, the exposition of multi-million dollar companies is becoming more and more popular. Blackfish is a commentary on the abuse and corruption involved with corporations involving animals and performance. The torture of these animals is sure to captivate your heart and shake you to your core. The story of Tilikum is especially horrifying, as the film tells you the story of his life, being corralled by boats and ripped from his family, suffering abuse by other whales, and being kept captive in small pools his entire life. When you see the shows where he performs, the shouting and happy smiles in the audience's faces is almost haunting. It's the chilling reality of what these sort of companies do just for money and to make people entertained. 5 years after, and this is still accurate and an important depiction of what really goes on behind the scenes of seemingly harmless performance. The interviews with past trainers, and the editing between them is very effective in that they are often cut with videos or graphics detailing the horrific conditions and treatment they put up with. Blackfish is a raw, chilling masterpiece.

zana-29266 This documentary changed my life. Absolutely brilliant.

rkaliz I will just mention one instance from the documentary and you think about it. There is a short mentioning of how a trainer used to train Orcas that were new to the park by putting them together with older, trained Orcas and asking them to perform the same tasks. When they, inevitably, failed, both animals were punished by being deprived of food. So the older, trained Orca, took it out on the younger, untrained one. Now, sit back and think about the same tactic being employed by human parents against their children. "I don't know who did it, but you are both grounded". There you go – a documentary about whales in captivity that taught you something about your own wrong methods of parenting.Aside from that, when you are done watching this, you will probably and justifiably never want to go to a marine park show with Orcas ever again. The documentary just works as a wake-up slap. We separate a baby whale calf from its mother and social structure, keep it as grown, 5 ton, apex predator in a pool for its entire life and milk it for its semen. If you ask me, Orcas must be the most mellow creatures on earth, for them to have only killed this few people in captivity…You want to see Orcas? Fly to Alaska or Iceland and get on a boat, to see them as they are meant to be: Swimming free and with erected dorsal fins.

Kwyett I was a child who lived in BC when Tilikum performed at SeaLand. I remember the news of the death of that young trainer very well. And then a few years ago the other trainer at Seaworld. I've always been fascinated with the beauty of Orcas and never thought they belonged in captivity. I just saw this documentary on Netflix and I'm glad that it was not afraid to get emotional over the heartache that is the outcome of having wild huge sea mammals in captivity, separated from their pod culture.