Dolphin Slaughter in Taiji
About 23,000 dolphins are being killed each year in the town of Taiji, in Japan. Not only they are killed, but their meat is also sold in the Japanese market and given in schools, even though it contains high levels of mercury. The film The Cove uses logos, pathos and ethos to effectively persuade their audience to seek some type of action from the audience to protect the lives of dolphins and to inform people on what is going on in the town of Taiji.
The film The Cove takes place in a small town of Taiji in Japan. The director Psihoyos explains the story of O'Barry who is an activist who is willing to protect any dolphin that is in danger. Throughout the film, it is informed that 23,000 dolphins are being killed …show more content…
Throughout the film, it is said that dolphins are being sold to amusement parks around the world and that nearly 23,000 dolphins are being slaughtered in Taiji. The dolphins who are caught have two destinies, sold for captivity or death. However, the Japanese government has not taken any action to stop them, which has made Taiji one of the largest suppliers of dolphins in the world, the dolphins are selected by dolphin trainers to be used in their amusement parks or slaughtered and sold in the meat market. Another logos example is that people in Japan are eating dolphin meat. This was a big issue since the meat was being sold in packages of different fish meat. The dolphin meat was also given schools for the students to eat. Tetsuya Endo who has a PH. D in health sciences, said "dolphin meat is high in mercury and can be very very toxic". This indicates that people in japan are at high risk and that the Japanese government is not doing …show more content…
One of the huge use of pathos was the one used by O'Barry. The film starts by telling the story of O'Barry and how he decided to become an activist. O'Barry said " The thing that turned me around was the death of flipper, of Cathy.". O'Barry was a dolphin trainer in the TV show Flipper but he turned his life around to be an activist due to the death of the dolphin Cathy, He then describes how the dolphin was depressed and how the dolphin decided to commit suicide by not taking her next breath. This scene made people feel sad since dolphins always seem happy and are always smiling. Another example of pathos used in the film was when O'Barry and his group decided to sneak into the cove at night, even though it was illegal which made the assumption that what they were doing was not wrong, and that the fisherman were the ones doing something wrong. Also, the use of images and footage made the feel emotional and horror of what the dolphins were experiencing in the cove. One of the scene was when Mandy-Rae a free diver was describing the scene, she said "this one dolphin, you could see it trying to get away, and it was swimming straight for us, and actually made it over a couple of nets, and every time it came up for a breath, you could see all this blood coming out behind it. You could see the last couple of breaths he took
About 23,000 dolphins are being killed each year in the town of Taiji, in Japan. Not only they are killed, but their meat is also sold in the Japanese market and given in schools, even though it contains high levels of mercury. The film The Cove uses logos, pathos and ethos to effectively persuade their audience to seek some type of action from the audience to protect the lives of dolphins and to inform people on what is going on in the town of Taiji.
The film The Cove takes place in a small town of Taiji in Japan. The director Psihoyos explains the story of O'Barry who is an activist who is willing to protect any dolphin that is in danger. Throughout the film, it is informed that 23,000 dolphins are being killed …show more content…
Throughout the film, it is said that dolphins are being sold to amusement parks around the world and that nearly 23,000 dolphins are being slaughtered in Taiji. The dolphins who are caught have two destinies, sold for captivity or death. However, the Japanese government has not taken any action to stop them, which has made Taiji one of the largest suppliers of dolphins in the world, the dolphins are selected by dolphin trainers to be used in their amusement parks or slaughtered and sold in the meat market. Another logos example is that people in Japan are eating dolphin meat. This was a big issue since the meat was being sold in packages of different fish meat. The dolphin meat was also given schools for the students to eat. Tetsuya Endo who has a PH. D in health sciences, said "dolphin meat is high in mercury and can be very very toxic". This indicates that people in japan are at high risk and that the Japanese government is not doing …show more content…
One of the huge use of pathos was the one used by O'Barry. The film starts by telling the story of O'Barry and how he decided to become an activist. O'Barry said " The thing that turned me around was the death of flipper, of Cathy.". O'Barry was a dolphin trainer in the TV show Flipper but he turned his life around to be an activist due to the death of the dolphin Cathy, He then describes how the dolphin was depressed and how the dolphin decided to commit suicide by not taking her next breath. This scene made people feel sad since dolphins always seem happy and are always smiling. Another example of pathos used in the film was when O'Barry and his group decided to sneak into the cove at night, even though it was illegal which made the assumption that what they were doing was not wrong, and that the fisherman were the ones doing something wrong. Also, the use of images and footage made the feel emotional and horror of what the dolphins were experiencing in the cove. One of the scene was when Mandy-Rae a free diver was describing the scene, she said "this one dolphin, you could see it trying to get away, and it was swimming straight for us, and actually made it over a couple of nets, and every time it came up for a breath, you could see all this blood coming out behind it. You could see the last couple of breaths he took