Just saw the Cove with my son, Jesse, and our friend, Joel.  Devastating movie.  So important. Extremely courageous.  And brilliantly made.  If the thought of seeing dolphins slaughtered, keeps you out of the theater, reconsider.  The movie is part adventure story, part marine documentary, part expose.  The actual brutality is a very small part of the movie, although I won't deny it is heartbreaking.  Seeing the trajectory of Ric O'Barry's career from Flipper trainer to anti-captivity activist is also moving, since perhaps no one has had such an intimate relationship with cetaceans.  We enter their world, their consciousness, and their great other intelligence.  What a mammalian homecoming it would be if we started to really see the uniqueness and true value of our seaborn cousins.  There are many ways in which the Taiji story and the Cove fit into the wider story of the oceans and the biosphere told in Eye of the Whale.  I think it is quite amazing that the culture is beginning to wake up to the need to change the cruel and self-destroying choices we are making.  Can we save the whales?  Can we save ourselves?