Dolphin Tale

[yoco]

Release Date: September 23, 2011 (3D/2D theaters)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Screenwriter: Karen Janszen, Noam Dromi, Charles Martin Smith, Jordan Roberts
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd, Kris Kristofferson, Nathan Gamble
Genre: Adventure, Family
MPAA Rating: Not Available

"Dolphin Tale" is inspired by the remarkable true story of a courageous dolphin named Winter and the compassionate people who banded together to save her life.

[SealLion]

This is a nice (and sad) tale; however, as sad as it is of a story of a very intelligent animal that's lost it's hind-tail, there's a myriad of stories that are pure horror with respect to the torture and slaying of some of the most intelligent aquatic-based animals on the planet by, for example only, Japanese fisherman.

[slikrapid]

inspired by the remarkable true story

whenever they mention this part it usually means the original story has been heavily modified to fit the agenda (fi. environmentalist/green, exploiting emotions, delivering indoctrination, influencing/steering/creating behavior/opinions), one(s) envisioned by people in charge of the movie (director, producers, companies, major stockholders, financiers, to lesser extent scriptwriters & co.), up to a point when it doesn't really matter anymore what the original story was all about, the supposed truth just serves as a good sales/advertising pitch

remember flipper & 'free willy'? seems the boy-animal theme is getting yet another re-hash, merely 'updated' to be compliant with the current new-age paradigm/platform

one may expect similar 'concerned' and/or catastrophic predictions/themes in the future, since this kind of attitude/viewpoint is the current & future mainstream, meaning: if you're green, you're in - everything else is not wanted or encouraged (optimistic view, the pessimistic one goes: attacked & persecuted), at least not officially, but of course, the majority will follow anyways, making it a de facto standard, or in other words, yet another dogma coming your way (to humbly obey & 'unto it thou shalt pray')

there's a myriad of stories that are pure horror with respect to the torture and slaying of some of the most intelligent aquatic-based animals on the planet by, for example only, Japanese fisherman.

indeed, though i'd make a few additional comments:

the slaying itself is probably something unavoidable since fishermen depend on the sea & its inhabitants for food and i'm pretty sure the experienced ones (aka 'old school') respect it deep down inside, for through its 'fruits' they are able to survive - so fishing itself is not a problem, but rather its transformation into an unscrupulous mass-industry where profit & interests rule, placing everything else into a back-seat in terms of priority, which effectively brought up unnecessary over-exploitation of specific species & extinction (or a significant reduction in their population) to some of them, whereas simple reasonable solutions as sea-farms (a logical analogy to land-farms) would render the issue superfluous - thus, the industry/companies & the government (regulations/corruption/lobbyism) are the major visible culprits here, not the fishermen - as usual, the big players are the ones making big damage & big profits, intentionally abusing their position (including the related responsibility) as big leaders & movers/shakers

[SealLion]

Yup. I gotta agree there. It is the big companies that are the big shakers and movers. And it is over-exploitation of aquatic life forms until death do them part.

Salmon is another example of over-exploitation as are whales, also hunted by Japanese and who-knows who else. Something akin to what you say yourself, one can argue about the lively hood that fishing on big fishing / commercial ships provide to the average person, but I doubt that many of those employees ( including the companies themselves ) actually consider the actions of their over-hunting on the depletion of life forms.

It is true that sometimes hunting is necessary to control the explosive growth of some species of animals and even birds. Yes, that's true and in those cases I would believe that it's necessary ( but not like here with the over-exploitation of dolphins or any animal for that matter for profit's sake completely disregarding potential extinction).

Going back to essential hunting, one example I can provide is the annual seal hunt in Newfoundland. It is true that, that annual hunt is very necessary to the livelihood of the people participating in that hunt but it's also known that if the seals were to over-populate, disease and hunger would also encroach upon the seal population. Hunger because of the limited food resources that the seal population would have to deal with and disease because of the deaths that would follow and potentially be unavoidable when one animal makes near contact with a dying animal.

[Resurrection]

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