The Cove
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 2009 |
| Country | United States |
| Director | Louie Psihoyos |
| Cast | Ric O’Barry, Louie Psihoyos, Hardy Jones, Mandy-Rae Cruickshank, Kirk Krack |
| Genre | Documentary film |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | The Cove | – |
| Español | La ensenada | La ensenada |
| Français | The Cove: La baie de la honte | The Cove: La baie de la honte |
| Deutsch | Die Bucht | Die Bucht |
| Português | A Enseada | A Enseada |
| Italiano | The Cove – La baia dove muoiono i delfini | The Cove – La baia dove muoiono i delfini |
| Русский | Бухта | Bukhta |
| 中文（简体） | 海豚湾 | – |
| 中文（繁體） | 海豚灣 | – |
| 한국어 | 더 코브: 슬픈 돌고래의 진실 | Deo Kobeu: Seulpeun Dolgoraeui Jinsil |
| ไทย | – | – |
| Tiếng Việt | Vịnh cá heo | Vinh ca heo |
| Bahasa Indonesia | The Cove | The Cove |
| 日本語 | ザ・コーヴ | Za Kōvu |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which concealed violence and moral exposure collide within an industrialized animal-use system.
■ Synopsis
A documentary team investigates the hidden dolphin hunt in Taiji and turns secrecy itself into the central object of exposure.
■ RECIPE Tags
#MoralExposure #AnimalUse #HiddenViolence #Witnessing #InstitutionalSecrecy
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: Hidden violence as normal practice
Reason: The film begins from a practice made socially invisible through local routine, restricted access, and institutional silence.
Related Film: Earthlings - Middle: Witnessing as intervention
Reason: The act of filming becomes an ethical counterforce against a system designed to prevent public recognition.
Related Film: Blackfish - Core: Exposure against protected exploitation
Reason: The conclusion moves toward making concealed animal suffering politically and globally legible.
Related Film: Racing Extinction
■ Secondary Axes
- Industry narrative versus biological dignity: Public-facing justifications collapse against the documented reality of animal suffering.
Related Film: Food, Inc. - Local custom under global moral scrutiny: A closed practice becomes a conflict between cultural defense and universal ethical visibility.
Related Film: Seaspiracy
■ Person
- Director: Louie Psihoyos
- Cast: Ric O’Barry, Louie Psihoyos, Hardy Jones, Mandy-Rae Cruickshank, Kirk Krack
■ Structural Tags
#ExposureStructure #SecrecyConflict #MoralVisibility
■ Attribute Tags
#UnitedStates #2009Film #DocumentaryFilm
