I've Seen Blackfish Quite A Few Times Now. I Honestly Don't Consider It Too Disturbing Or Shocking -

I've seen Blackfish quite a few times now. I honestly don't consider it too disturbing or shocking - just sad and angry at SeaWorld's response.

Another short documentary called Inside the Tanks featured a french Sea Park that had orcas. The guy working at the park who actually came out to talk with the filmcrew about the animal's wellfare? For all I disagree with him on, he actually did what SeaWorld should have done with Blackfish: give their side. That he agrees life could be better for the animals and a better program would be ideal is a step in the right direction, and that is: getting the sea parks and the whale experts on the same page and work together to help their animals! It's the parks who own the whales and have all their veterinary care. It would be ideal to have the same trainers around especially for the whale born in captivity. If they were open to change - real genuine change, there'd still be room to complain but it would be SOMETHING.

Instead, SeaWorld went on the war-path against Blackfish, refused to give the doc their take and called everything in it a lie. Their failure is their own. They had the opportunity to change but that would be an admittance of guilt and that's BAAAD meanwhile Disney parks operate just fine despite ALL the fatalities that happened at their parks. It's like they know not to wear that shit as a badge and spin it like it's always the fault of the victims which is what SeaWorld absolutely did to it's employees. It's not good when you're making Disney look better, SeaWorld!

If you haven't seen Blackfish yet, you should. The most misleading part of the documentary is using footage of wales that aren't actually being described the interviewees ((the baby whale Jon Crow talked about capturing in the beginning of the doc is NOT Tilikum, but Lolita)). That's it though. The rest of it is honestly pretty forgiving of SeaWorld's employees and legacy considering the circumstances - especially the first 10 or so minutes. This isn't some PeTA shit, folks. This movie is sad not only for the orcas but because it makes you feel for these trainers who love these animals and eachother and have been utterly betrayed by the industry.

Im trying to prove a point to my mum

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cracking-marble

3 years ago

I just watched “It Follows” for the first time (spoilers ahead), and while I’m late to the party, I absolutely loved it. It lacks most of the jump scares that puts me off some horror movies, but it is unnervingly relentless. The creep factor is way up there.

But what I love most is that it really is an allegory for sexual assault. It’s how it starts, honestly, and carries through in the way the protagonist’s friends and family circle around her, and all the way to the end, when there is no magical save that kills the creature and lets them live happily ever after. It’s something they carry with them, and continue to survive, day by day, together.

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cracking-marble

3 years ago

a thought about It Follows

since It is vulnerable to physical injury (if It wasn’t, a bullet wouldn’t have slowed It down) and moves only at walking speed, why doesn’t Its current target just live on a boat? a boat can outpace a human easily, and the ocean will slow It down even more, because It’ll have to swim or attempt to walk along the bottom and be crushed by the pressure. even better–if It can be passed on to a submariner, It’ll have to deal with both of those factors.

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cracking-marble

4 years ago

Problem is: as a kid I always thought I would have killed myself at this point but I haven't and now I actually gotta face having a future like whaaat??

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cracking-marble

4 years ago

And after a while you just stop. You stop watering your plants. You stop watching netflix. You stop reading. You stop replying to your friends as fast as you used to. You stop buying yourself nice things. You stop putting an effort into how you look. You stop taking care of yourself like you used to. You stop sleeping. You stop eating healthy foods. You stop petting your dog. You stop socializing.

You stop with everything. You find yourself sitting in your room for hours on end, without doing a single thing. Days feel like years. And you think you can’t do it for much longer.

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cracking-marble

2 years ago