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Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery
This movie is stupid and will never reach the right people.
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Have you seen the movie?
Who are the "right people"?
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Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery
The movie is obviously a dramatization geared towards a western audience, and many Japanese people will probably never see the video, nor would they really care to as it's not in their demographic.
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I doubt a dramatization would have won Best Documentary awards.
Don't you think the Japanese people who do care to see it should have the right to?
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Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery
All that's going to come of this is new fuel for western tree huggers to say things like "Those damn Japanese!," while continuing to sit behind a computer monitor and never even partake in any of these social commentaries. Now all we've got is a bunch of Japanese nationalists who take the side that all this video is is a bunch of foreigners breaking laws and slandering an industry, with the intention of shedding light on a group of people (westerners) who aren't the ones who can even solve the problem.
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Already it has brought awareness about dolphin slaughter that people even in Taiji were not aware of and many are not happy about. For that alone I think the movie has achieved its goal, despite your complaints.