Yes the stats are affecting: 5 people each year die from shark attacks; 8 million die from starvation. In the end though, it was a single shot which silenced my compulsive hatred of these beautiful beasts: Rob Stewart stands on the ocean floor with his arms wrapped affectionately around a large blue shark. Incredible.
The film is about more than the behaviour and characteristics of this species. "People of the future will look back on us as barbarians." There is a mass annihilation of their populations taking place as we speak; shark finning is barbaric cruelty and my eyes were closed to it. If it hadn't been presented with such passionate empathy, I would have continued in my ignorance - "Sharks are vicious animals. Who cares if they're been killed off?"
It's so easy to fall in love with furry animals with faces like ours; be a rebel, hug a shark today!
*Should you watch it in the theatre? HECK yes! Why? 1. Rob Stewart is Canadian. 2. This documentary is more informative, eye-opening and affecting than The Inconvenient Truth!
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And please don't forget how incredibly gorgeous underwater footage can be!
that too! that too!
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