Black Fish Documentary Analysis

How does one develop their own thoughts and opinions? Do we wake up one and suddenly think: hey Sea World shouldn’t be open? No, probably not. We all start off on a clean slate. In Percy’s reading, he discusses how the views of the people around us sometimes decide our views for us. Of course, every day we hear many different opinions. Does this not help us decide what we believe? Our opinions are built off of thoughts and ideas we have heard. The people around us help us grow into the people we are. Children are perfect examples of starting off on a clean slate. They mimic their parents from the start. They hear words out of their parent’s mouths and attempt to repeat them back. As a child becomes older, their siblings begin to have a huge …show more content…
That someone else heard something from someone else who heard something from someone else, and so on, to encourage them to believe what they believe. It’s a continuous cycle of opinions being thrown around and shared. This is what happened with Ashley. A documentary is what started this sulky attitude within her. A documentary put together by multiple individuals with varying opinions and facts. Ashley began to explain to me a documentary called Black Fish. The documentary discussed the issue of mistreatment of Killer Whales within the Sea World Facilities. She went in depth about the documentary and my heart became heavy. She rambled on about how irritable she was that we were there funding the ill-treatment of these poor creatures. From that point forward, the rest of the day was very bleak for me and I was more than ready to go home. Her strong opinion on Sea World all started from one simple documentary, and that’s all it takes. Hearing one individuals differing thoughts on a particular topic can curve your opinions dramatically in some cases. Is this really all that bad though? Every day we hear different thoughts and opinions. We hear them on the news, in the work place, and even at home. As a child, it all starts at