"The Cove" just was awarded with the Academy Award for the best documentary feature and certainly you can start long discussions about that decision. In this category it's always the question whether you award the best made picture or the most relevant topic behind the movie. And then you can continue about whether animal rights which are discussed in this movie are less important than human rights (especially Burma VJ has to be mentioned here) or equal. But all these discussions would only ruin this wonderful movie.
This movie about the dolphin slaughtering in a little town in Japan overgoes the supposed barriers of the genre easily. The things that are shown here are not only shocking, but also presented in a very special way. I've never seen such a thrilling documentary feature before. You go through all of that emotions that you experience only in really good movies. There is the relevant story, there are the thrilling experiences, there is an ending that makes hope and, what especially thrilled me, there even are character conflicts. Look at this poor guy who is sitting there and tells you how incredibly sorry he is for starting that insane business. And that he's on the road for many years trying to stop it, but he just can't do it. That's the way of conflict for which screenplay writers all over the world would and could be very proud of. But it's not fiction, it's true. All those elements of a normal motion pciture are what makes this movie so extraordinary.
So don't refuse to watch or like this movie, only because you think it's so incredibly unfair that those stupid dolphins took away the oscar from the poor people in Burma or from Daniel Ellsberg or whomever. At the end this is a great movie that really deserves to be seen. I'll give it
8/10 points, but will maybe increase this rating later on.
