{"id":9476,"date":"2013-08-27T21:45:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T04:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=9476"},"modified":"2013-08-28T17:50:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T00:50:03","slug":"shamus-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2013\/08\/27\/shamus-revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Shamu&#8217;s Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9496\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Blackfish.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Blackfish-202x300.jpg?resize=202%2C300\" alt=\"Blackfish movie poster\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Blackfish.jpg?resize=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1 202w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Blackfish.jpg?w=675&amp;ssl=1 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><b><i>Blackfish<\/i><\/b> movie poster<\/figcaption><\/figure>[Documentary Cinema]<\/p>\n<h1><strong><em>Blackfish<\/em> movie review<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"reviewermag\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h4><i>Blackfish<\/i><br \/>\nDirector: Gabriela Cowperthwaite<br \/>\nRunning time: 90 minutes<br \/>\nProducer: Manuel Oteyza<br \/>\nCast: Kim Ashdown, Samantha Berg, Carol Ray, Dean Gomersall, More<br \/>\nScreenplay: Eli B. Despres, Gabriela Cowperthwaite<\/h4>\n<p><strong>review by Bob Yunger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Printing this review will most likely guarantee that Sea World will never advertise here, dear readers. But that\u2019s OK.<\/p>\n<p>God, what an awful movie. Just awful in its awfulness. It\u2019s like a snuff film without the climax. Although you know what\u2019s coming and never see it, by the end of the movie you felt like you\u2019ve watched the death of the whale handlers over and over again through the taped reactions of the people around them. Then there\u2019s the animals themselves. <\/p>\n<p>The conditions they\u2019re forced to exist in are worse than most prisons. Performing for kids and tourists from the Midwest, you\u2019d think they\u2019d go berserk every day and just begin chomping heads off instead of giving out foul-smelling kisses. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so un-normal. The habitat they evolved in affords them unlimited expanse to roam and swim in a straight line if they want to, not circle around a shallow swimming pool and then be penned up at night in a 30-foot cage. The word psychosis was used many times in this movie. <\/p>\n<p>It should have been included in the title, as maybe <em>Psycho Blackfish<\/em>. I will in no way go so far as to say that the female trainer who died in Orlando deserved what happened to her, but she couldn\u2019t have believed the whale she commanded over was a happy camper. <\/p>\n<p>And I am certain she enjoyed the crowd\u2019s attention in every show. <\/p>\n<p>The autopsy report is online (at <a href=\"http:\/\/reviewermag.org\/blackfish.pdf\">reviewermag.org\/blackfish<\/a>), but it reads in part as follows: <em>\u201c40 year-old white female, animal trainer, attacked by a killer whale (Orcinus orca) at work&#8230;\u201d<\/em> Then there\u2019s several paragraphs of detailed descriptions of an athletic woman who died of blunt force trauma and massive lacerations to her head, neck, torso and limbs. Also included was the removal of her scalp and dismemberment of her left arm (<em>\u201ccomplete avulsion of the upper-left extremity&#8230;\u201d<\/em>) with, <em>\u201cEvidence of drowning\u201d<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>The autopsy ends by saying that, in the opinion of the filer of the report, the subject died as the result of an accident. <\/p>\n<p>Shamu might disagree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Documentary Cinema] Blackfish movie review Tweet Blackfish Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite Running time: 90 minutes Producer: Manuel Oteyza Cast: Kim Ashdown, Samantha Berg, Carol Ray, Dean Gomersall, More Screenplay: Eli B. Despres, Gabriela Cowperthwaite review by Bob Yunger Printing this review will most likely guarantee that Sea World will never advertise here, dear readers. But that\u2019s OK. God, what an awful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[581,741,613],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-indy-film","category-san-diego"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12240,"url":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2015\/09\/17\/behind-the-scenes-at-the-oregon-coast-aquarium\/","url_meta":{"origin":9476,"position":0},"title":"Behind the scenes at The Oregon Coast Aquarium","author":"Reviewer Rob","date":"September 17, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"BIG BUSINESS AND ANIMAL RIGHTS Seaworld sucks, and can learn a lot from The Oregon Coast Aquarium by SAS Since it\u2019s release in 2013 the controversial documentary Blackfish has inflamed audiences, provoking a boycott of the amusement park and aquarium super giant SeaWorld. 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