Candid shooting is often a means to create a thrilling sense of reality in documentaries, but this film takes it further, because the tension of the preparation and deployment of candid shooting is no longer as simple as the hidden camera in the previous documentaries. In gathering people from all walks of life, preparing to deploy sneak shot equipment. As the director said, he created an effect similar to "Thirteen Arhats", introduced the members' stunts one by one, and filmed the Arhats dodge under night vision, cautiously like special Operational deployment of troops. Coupled with the entire documentary filming period, tracking and anti-tracking, breakthroughs and obstructions, the director made the whole process look thrilling and exceptionally wonderful, maintaining the rare tension of a documentary, and shooting a documentary at the same time is so costly. It also implicitly aroused the audience's doubts, "What a shady scene should be hidden behind this?!".
Many documentaries are excessively woven with visual or selective materials to stimulate the audience's emotions, which often makes them pale in social meaning and value, which makes people seem emotional and forget them immediately after watching them. The excellence of "Dolphin Bay" is that it balances the relationship between emotional impact and reasoning. The emotional impact of the film is already shocking enough, and the biggest impact is placed at the back of the film. The secretly filmed equipment records the blood red. Under the sea, the bloody slaughter of dolphins and their painful wailing are enough to make people intertwined with anger and sadness. In the field of environmental protection, especially in the field of animal protection, I have always felt that there is a reality that people still have selective attention with "aesthetic" tendencies. Therefore, cute or smart animals such as giant pandas and dolphins are more likely to be affected. Everyone’s attention, on the contrary, few people care about the extinction of some kind of ugly lizard. However, perhaps because of this, it is smooth to use it as a breakthrough in environmental protection propaganda. Because of people's attention, they are often the group that has been the most painful or the longest tortured, and such damage is even hidden. It has long been believed that the giant pandas living in the zoo and the dolphins living in the aquarium are carefree and happy. Their naive attitude or jumping in the performance is a happy expression. However, happiness never exists in a cage. This film tells us that dolphins are often suffering from stomach pain. Taking a pitiful animal like dolphins as a breakthrough point in environmental protection is easier to arouse public resonance and attention. What we often need is to take the opportunity to make some further promotion, and then expand this sentiment to the concern of the entire environmental protection concept and cause. , To benefit more endangered species.
The film does not stop at the emotional impact, but from multiple angles to explain the irrationality of capturing and slaughtering dolphins and the shady behind it. The argument is quite rigorous. When watching the film, I often see this argument and think "But... .", it immediately expounded the next point of view to clear my doubts. For example, simply talking about protecting animals often makes some people feel like making a fuss, or simply avoiding it, and are too lazy to talk with the paranoia of "Greenpeace". However, this film quickly explained that the mercury content in dolphin meat is seriously exceeding the standard, and it is sold as meat. Long-term consumption may cause serious health problems. This is enough to make those who are indifferent to the life and death of dolphins pay attention to it. You should always pay attention to your own health, and some of them will say, I don't eat dolphin meat, right? This film immediately further demonstrated that a lot of dolphin meat was sold as whale meat, which made some of the remaining people alert, especially for Japanese, eating whale meat is common, who can guarantee not to eat it Such "poisonous whale meat"? At the same time, this kind of poison-filled behavior similar to the Chinese melamine incident is no longer a purely environmental issue, but a public health security issue, which is enough to alert the Japanese people. In addition, this film introduces intentional cover-ups by the government and the media (people who do not trust the government began to pay attention), international political games and shady transactions (people with good political conspiracies have begun to pay attention), and a large number of mercury-containing dolphin meat is being "Give it away" to Japanese schools as food (how many parents should start paying attention). In-depth, the topic is continuously rising from the field of environmental protection, and finally more audiences are included to care about this event, and this process is not a simple selective weaving of materials, but a rational and objective organization, which makes people feel convincing. Really generating the feeling that environmental protection is related to our own interests, and as long as people’s "selfish" pain points are hit, their enthusiasm for environmental protection will be more easily stimulated. The rationality of this film is that it not only raises questions, but also shows some solutions through interviews, such as compensation mechanisms to offset the economic losses caused by fishermen stopping dolphins. Of course, this will encounter similar traditions and nationalism. However, there has never been a perfect solution. I can only keep exploring and trying to be the rational path. Simply scolding the other party is a pervert. In addition to making them even more frenzied as described by an environmentalist in the film Even deliberately killing dolphins in front of opponents to provoke them will not play a better role.
As for the dolphin slaughter, I first hope that this documentary can arouse the awareness of Japanese people. From the documentary, we know that they have been deceived by lies. From the perspectives of environmental protection, public health, and government negligence, they can all put pressure on the government. At the same time, I think that as a Chinese, after watching this film, if you come to the conclusion that "Japanese people are really abnormal" and get a sense of pleasure from swearing, then this really runs counter to the purpose of this film. , To promote this film to more people, so that everyone understands the depression we see in the aquarium and the slaughter their compatriots are enduring; it is more reasonable to reflect on yourself, and the anger and anger that this film arouses towards the tragic fate of the dolphins Sadness rises to a more positive environmental awareness, and it is more reasonable to use actions to influence more talents. It often takes time to get out of misunderstandings and requires more information. Just as I have long believed that water conservancy projects are completely environmentally friendly energy sources, I didn’t learn about its negative effects on ecology and society until a few years ago from Geography magazines, and I also learned about it. More solutions. Similarly, there may be many misunderstandings of environmental protection in my mind like "Dolphins are friends of humans, so letting them "carefree" in contact with humans in the aquarium is so beautiful." This also requires me to be more active. Understand environmental protection, participate in environmental protection, and get out of misunderstandings.
One of the clues of this film that is very Western is "salvation." Richard O'Berry in the film once filmed "The Dolphin Tale" which gave a huge boost to the aquarium's dolphin show business. He also once enjoyed himself in misunderstandings. His career until one day, the death of a dolphin brought him a huge shock. As a result, he became the most active whistleblower of the dolphin industry chain, for the dolphin friend who died in front of him, for more dolphins, and for the cause of environmental protection. His efforts and emotions became the most infectious and moving elements of this film. Indeed, don't be too busy blaming others, environmental awareness, start with your own reflection!
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