So Good - It Pissed Me Off

You said it perfectly! Who'd have thought people would capitalize on your love for something & turned that into a billion $ industry & even go to the extend to kill? Go write that activist letter of yours. Well, it's probably time for me to write a review on greed itself! :-) Btw, excellent review!

This was amazing -- and the juxtaposition of O'Barry's role in creating the very industry that he's now trying to defeat was one of the most compelling twists I've seen in a documentary. Really well done - hope they get the Oscar they're nominated for! Great review - thx!

Now I can see why you recommended this one to me. It's of special interest to me because for a long time I was interested in working with orcas==not in in a Sea World context but in some sort of research or veterinary capacity. I saw my first orca in 1972 in Miami's Seaquarium. I went in at openning and just stood by the railing of his horribly small tank for about an hour and a half as he lay on his side staring back at me. I was less than awe struck. He had a scab over the end of his nose that must have been at least 8" in diameter. I later learned it was left on as a bandage for a wound he received from trying to swim through one of the windows in the lower portion of his tank. I found those windows when I decided to leave. So I went over to get a better look. He sank down to window level and it was a whole 'nother world then to be eye to eye with him like that. To know that he was really looking at you and not just in your direction. I couldn't help but wonder what he was thinking. It was almost show time and people came and crowded me out, but I founf another widow around the corner. And damned if that whale wasn't at that same window within1 minute! There's a lot more to this story but it tends to bore anyone who isn't me. The point is I spent the whole day with him, moving from place to place, just staring into his big watery eye like a lovesick puppy. I really think we made some kind of connection though. He died within 8 years, but at least he wasn't alone. They gave him a girl friend named Lolita.