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  Grizzly Man 2005

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Jan 2025

  Take-home message, and a review on Treadwell, not the movie itself, by the words of Sven Haakanson Jr.:
  "I think he did more damage to the bears... when you habituate bears to humans, they think all humans are safe... If I look at it from my culture, Timothy Treadwell crossed a boundary that we have lived with for 4,000 years."
  "He tried to act like a bear, and for us on the island, you don't do that. You don't invade…

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  Blackfish 2013

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Jan 2025

  Coincidentally watched this on the anniversary of Tilikum's death (6 Jan).
  Welfare of animals used for profit is of no interest to the profiteers as long as they bring in profit.
  Workers' lives are expendable, as long as simply bringing new ones in remains profitable.

Popular reviews

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  Being Present 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2021

  Yorgos Avgeropoulos is the historiographer of the modern era. Do yourselves a favour and watch his new, excellent as always, documentary.
  Even if you have recently lived through these or similar events, a comprehensive review of such an amount of information is a more or less impossible task for someone who has not been trained to do it.
  And that's why this movie is so, so important.

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  Artifishal 2019

  ★★½ Watched 26 Mar 2020

  Salmon is among the highest receivers of conservation funding globally. Here's yet another case of humans trying to correct a wrong (wild salmon decline due to over-fishing and habitat degradation) by doing another wrong (salmon hatcheries). And when that second wrong is not working, they keep doing it because otherwise they would have to admit the industrialised exploitation of natural resources is not sustainable and the economic model needs to change.
  The first half of the documentary feels rather messy,…

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