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Clips from The Cove (2009)

"It's..."
The Cove (2009)
"It's unbelievable, really."
The Cove (2009)
"Even though there's obviously no words spoken,"
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"you really feel like you're on some level communicating with them,"
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"I don't normally touch anything in the water,"
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"but I just thought, you know,"
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"it had been swimming with me for so long,"
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"Here you have this dolphin,"
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"wild and on its own terms,"
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"to uncover the dolphin slaughter,"
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"What can we do?"
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"- This is what..."
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"It's so cool."
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"I'm just a cute little innocent rock."
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"is going to be the trick, I think, next."
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"Actually, come back to the hotel and we have real rocks."
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"There's 47 suitcases."
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"We definitely were trying to be as discreet as possible,"
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"but there's nothing discreet about Westerners"
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"in a place where there are no Westerners with big black cases,"
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"Well, now, there's a car here."
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"Just... I just got here yesterday."
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"You think... Do you think they know we're here?"
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"You do?"
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"First morning we arrived in Taiji,"
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"Ric O'Barry met us at our hotel."
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"He decided that it would be a good idea"
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"if he'd take us on a tour"
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"so we got the lay of the land."
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"and one of the first things we noticed"
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"was that we got an escort."
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"This is the butcher shop right here,"
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"the slaughterhouse."
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"This is the union right here,"
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"and there's Private Space."
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"we had no idea who was following us."
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"There was about seven or eight cars that we had license plates,"
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"We didn't know if it was the whalers."
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"We didn't know if it was Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia."
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"We had no idea."
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"He looks over there, and he goes, Chief of Police."
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"If you're around Ric, they... they know you're trouble."
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"Our first encounter with the fishermen"
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"was they went down there at first break of light,"
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"and as soon as we arrived,"
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"a number of fishermen showed up."
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"We were down by the beach looking at..."
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"You could see the blood coming out of the killing lagoon."
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"were cordoned off by themselves away from their parents"
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"and as Joe and I tried to walk down this path,"
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"some of the fishermen came and actually butted chest against us."
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"And just after that,"
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"We walked down to the water's edge,"
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"and this one poor dolphin, it..."
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"and it was swimming straight for us and the shore,"
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"and every time it came up for a breath,"
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"you could see all this blood coming out behind it,"
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"and you could see the last couple of breaths it took,"
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"and then it went down, and we never saw it again."
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"Bye-bye-bye-bye."
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"Outside these few remote villages,"
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"most of the population doesn't even know this is going on."
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"The fishermen here who do this tell you This is our tradition."
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"You don't understand us."
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"You eat cows. Well, we eat dolphins."
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"is because of a media cover-up,"
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"Mercury starts in the environment"
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"and every step of the ladder up,"
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"until the top of the food chain,"
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"things like striped bass, bluefish,"
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"tuna, swordfish, marlin..."
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"and these substances are causing real problems,"
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"not just to dolphins, but to people,"
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"that's Flipper, by the way..."
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"It's better to refrain from taking those meats..."
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"But still dolphin meat contains some valuable nutrients."
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"This is a matter"
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"that the consumer affairs and health ministries are looking after,"
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"that exceeds any of their standards."
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"By their standards."
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"Almost nobody eats dolphin meat,"
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"so that begs the question,"
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"Where is all this meat going?"
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"Dolphin meat is generally considered to be a less desirable commodity,"
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"So the meat is distributed much more widely than we recognize."
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"We brought him samples, and he analyzed them"
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"that were labeled as expensive meat from larger whales"
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"from whales from the southern hemisphere,"
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"than World Health Organization recommendations."
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"the people that they're selling it to."
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"And the government knows this,"
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"They had this problem once before in Minamata."
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"That's where mercury poisoning was first discovered."
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"But it's not a disease. It's not caught."
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"It's the result of this toxicity."
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"The most serious health risk of these high levels of mercury"
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"is to pregnant women."
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"It's the fetus that's most sensitive to these levels of mercury."
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"The children were starting to be born deformed."
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"And it's going to happen again."
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"looked into the records"
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"to see how many people there have mercury poisoning."
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"loss of hearing, loss of your eyesight."
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"It doesn't just knock you over dead."
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"And that's happening."
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"of other Japanese that he's selling the meat to?"
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"He doesn't want to know."
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"He doesn't want to know about it."
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"they weren't poisoning the people in Minamata, either."
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"The Chisso factory?"
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"Same thing, same problem."
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"You don't think there's a cover-up going on"
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"with the amount of mercury in dolphin meat?"
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"I don't think that a similar tragedy would happen"
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"because of the dolphin meat."
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"I don't think so."
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"Ultimately, the dolphin meat"
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"is based on supply and demand like any other product,"
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"and if that product is poison"
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"and they can't sell it in Taiji,"
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