Compare And Contrast Essay On Blackfish

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There’s No Real Good Guy In the movie, “Blackfish” we are exposed to the fact that the way orcas are treated at SeaWorld is worse than we are lead to believe. We see how they are forced to swim in tiny pools and how they can only be fed if they preform well. After seeing this it makes you feel like the only way to help these poor creatures is to jump on the animal activist wagon and to free all the whales like in “Free Willy”. But is that really the right way to go? Are the big companies like SeaWorld the only bad guys here? In this world things aren’t always black and white and sometimes you need to know when and when not to free Willy. Most people have seen the iconic movie “Free Willy” a 1993 American family drama directed by Simon Wincer and it heart warming tale about a delinquent boy who has a chance encounter with an orca whale named Willy. The boy bonds with the whale and eventually he manages to get Willy back to the ocean and free him from the horrible amusement park that he had spent most of his life in. everyone loves the movie and everyone loves Willy, who is played by Keiko the Orca a young whale who had lived most of his life in captivity, and after getting …show more content…

Why shouldn’t we give this whale the freedom it wants and deserves? But what if he didn’t want it? Keiko had been in captivity for most of his life, he enjoyed preforming and was friendly to people epically kids, he was pretty much as domesticated as a whale can get. Animal right activist never took that in mind though as they forced him in rehabilitation to get him ready to join the wild, and while the media depict this as a magical and joyful experience for him it was actually very horrifying for the poor orca. The people who were trying to help him adjust to the wild had nothing but the best intentions and wanted to make the transition as smooth as possible, but they were often foiled by the activists who wanted him to be out free as soon as

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