The Cove

The Cove was an intense documentary. I believe that they structured the film in such a way to capture the attention of people and to make them feel strongly that dolphin slaughter is very wrong on many levels. The director filmed the scenes more like an action movie more than the typical "boring" "not-very-exciting" documentary. They used night vision scenes to pull viewers in and depict danger as the people were sneaking into the dolphin coves to plant their rock cameras to uncover the unethical killing of dolphins. The film makers probably left out the not so exciting scenes because they wanted to have their audience on the edges of their seats. Also every time they drove somewhere they were always being followed by other vehicles which also contributed to the action factor of the movie. By making the film more action based i think the movie was very successful in getting viewers to want to get involved and feel passionate towards eradicating killing of dolphins.
A New York Times reviewer described the film as a "trojan horse" I think the writer used this term because they used cameras disguised as rocks to infiltrate the cove to get real sound and video footage with out being noticed. Just like the trojan horse the cameras were used to bypass the coves barriers and reveal information to the public.
I think the over all reaction of the Japanese would by total shock. Little to no Japanese residents probably knew that dolphins were being slaughtered and being sold for their meat (disguised as whale meat). I would hope that the Japanese people would jump at the chance to stop the slaughter since it is very unethical and because the meat isn't even good to eat because it has such high mercury levels. Yet even the Japanese head of whale protection was in denial that dolphins are being slaughtered there. I believe that many Japanese would also be in denial upon watching The Cove.