Is it Right to Lock Up Wild Animals in a Zoo or a Marine Park? The Blackfish Scandal

When 'Blackfish' became a 2103 Sundance Festival selection and was premiered there in January, the highly controversial documentary made by investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite about Sea World, a marine park exhibiting orcas (killer whales), began to made waves. Now it is about to be released and more and more people talk about it, the New York Times has reported on it five days ago, it is all over the blogosphere.



Here's the movie trailer:



 



It is indeed a horrifying film about one orca, Tilikum who was so severely affected by her captivity that she reportedly killed her trainer. Whether it is inaccurate and misleading, I don't know but what I do know is that the locking up of wild animals for the pleasure of humans is not humane behavior.  



Not unsurprisingly Sea World has issued a statement saying the film is "shamefully dishonest, deliberately misleading, and scientifically inaccurate." (see here Thelma Adams' report on Yahoo movies)



And what has the filmmaker to say about this? Plenty and click here to find out what her co-writer Tim Zimmermann has to say. Personally, I think it's very clear, the evidence is in and the case is closed. What do you think?