In the movie “Blackfish” by Gabriela Cowperthwaite talks about the enclosed habitat of killer whales. By 1960 a large exhibition when on to catch killer whales to put on for entertainment. Over the course of catching killer whales over 70 different incidents have happened. Leading thus killing many helpless trainers . The filmmaker uses a lot of ethos, pathos and logos in the film in many different ways to persuade the audience that the containment of killer whales is inhuman. In the Documentary Blackfish the director uses logos to persuade the audience by explaining the differences between the lives Orcas live in captivity versus their natural habitat. In the video he explains how many of the male killer ways left in captivity dorsal fin are collapse caused by them not being able to swim freely and being fed unnatural diets like thawed dead fish. In contrast, only 1% of male orcas have their dorsal fin collapsed. Another point the director makes is how orcas are kept small confinements with up four orcas. The small confinements cause the orcas to get aggressive inflicting harm on one another, leaving scars and/or even resulting in death. In comparison orcas in the wild don't tend to fight each other and if they were too they have the freedom to flee the conflict way unlike inside captivity. It is unreasonable to keep …show more content…
Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite interviews former SeaWorld trainers and they explain when first employed, they were unaware of all the cases in which trainers were hurt while either training or performing. The trainers also spoke about how they didn’t know that Tilikum had been brought to SeaWorld after the death of a trainer of now de-functed Sea Land. Tilikum was the cause of three human deaths. Seaworld insisted it was the fault of the trainer and not the orca. These examples show how seaworld's is only interested in making money and does not care for its employees or