Blackfish (2013)

Continuing my foray into humankind’s exploitation of other creatures is this one-sided documentary on the grotesque mistreatment of orcas at marine parks, especially SeaWorld. It is hard to imagine what SeaWorld’s response to the details of the documentary would be other than captive orcas bring in money, but the film does suffer from being rather blatant propaganda. Regardless it is effective and lays down many questions as to what value utilizing intelligent animals for the enjoyment of less intelligent humans offers the world.