Captivity Breeds Aggression
Lucas Terry
Colorado Technical University
March 1, 2015

In human history, captivity, slavery, and colonization resulted to uprisings, revolts, and revolutions elsewhere in the world. The numerous human histories on this matter can be equated to how animals in captivity resort to aggressive actions that even escalate to killings. In the documentary movie entitled “Blackfish,” no matter how the lawyers and spokespersons of Sea World argue against the idea that the killings of trainers were caused by the aggressiveness of the killer whales, it always boils down to the philosophy that the oppressed creatures naturally fights back. And if the killer whales fight back, pitiful are the trainers who will get victimized. “Blackfish” is a documentary of how ORCAs like Tilikum were captivated in various environments and put to captivity to be trained for animal shows. The documentary presents the owners of the animal show businesses like Sea World as the villains while the former trainers of Sea World who disclosed issues about the killings of their colleagues, and all the informants who told the truth are the heroes. The good thing about the documentary is that they have variety of sources. They even spoke to the diver that who explained how ORCAs are captured. That person was even one of those who captured Tilikum. The documentary also put in the film how the killer whales were trained and tamed by specialist who used their knowledge on psychology to control creature that naturally thrive in the wild. Most of the informants in the film had their first hand encounter with Tilikum and other killer whales. Also, most of them have knowledge of the cruelty in the whole issue of animals in captivity and the specific cruelty that Sea World has committed against Tilikum. However, the trainer-divers who connect with the whales for exhibitions