‘The Cove’: A riveting documentary
By Bob Denerstein 
| August 7, 2009 | 8:37 AM
"The Cove", playing at Landmark Chez Artiste in Denver, chronicles the threat to dolphins in a Japanese village.
The Cove, which deals with the threat posed to dolphins, focuses on the small Japanese town of Taiji. Taiji is home base for fishing operations in which dolphins are driven into a small cove where they’re systematically killed or captured for shipment to theme parks. Not surprisingly, money is the root of the evil that has beset the world’s dolphin population.
Director Louie Psihoyos keeps the story suspenseful. He also explains that the movie was a kind of stealth operation. The crew, which had to sneak into position to do much of the filming, used cameras hidden in fake rocks. In order to photograph the mass killing of dolphins, the filmmakers also had to dodge authorities.
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