Seaspiracy: La pesca insostenible

This is a scary documentary for a mix of different reasons.

It's informative and shocking. The statistics that it gives really make you gasp.

You can tell that this film maker really does have a passion for this subject.

It's heartbreaking but not really in a way that will make you cry. More in a way that you will be in complete shock and disbelief. At the people who can do things like this.

I think the biggest issue I had with the movie is it is trying to fit an insane about of subjects into a documentary that runtime is an hour and twenty nine minutes. It's shoves much in that it has to constantly topic hop. I think it's interesting in a way because it shows how it is all connected but it can just make you feel a little bit untethered to the films I thought.

Other than that I think it was great and eye opening.

You may not eat fish again if you watch this passionate Netflix documentary, Seaspiracy, about global corruption, from destroying marine life with plastic garbage to slaughtering whales and dolphins using slave labor. I may exaggerate my tone as director/narrator Ali Tabrizi too often does, but if there is just a small portion of truth here, you best pay attention to see what you can do about our seas.

Perhaps the most depressing disclosure is the destruction of marine life and habitats by the growing amount of plastic, which can accumulate in square miles like colonies, seemingly indestructible fake food for unknowing fish like dolphins and whales who ingest without the ability to expunge. To see creatures entangled in monstrous nets as collateral damage is to weep for our inability to stop the imprisonment.

As Tabrizi gets closer to Asia, Japan's wanton fishing of sharks for their fins leaves a numbing feeling of waste and cruelty. But crueler still is Thailand's supposed sustainable Grind, an occasional herding of whales resulting in a blood red harbor of death.

Yet the bad that men can do is evident as young men corral fish while these youths are themselves enslaved by ruthless employers. Maybe more depressing is Tabrizi's disclosure that non-profit organizations can be more corrupt than whalers.

With that human flourish, Tabrizi's 90 min doc makes his point about the universal corruption of humanity and the need to preserve the seas, which need all sizes of fish to sustain itself. Typically, Tabrizi is in hyper mode, but I doubt few of us will give up fish in our diet. His answer to curbing the global exploitation of seas and men can, however, spur us on to better, more humane practices.

If seafood disappears, according to a study, by 2048, then most of us will not have to worry. Except for our grandkids, hmmm. I may stop eating fish right now.

This is a definite eye opener that will not be easy to digest. If you focus on the information being presented and not the filmmaking, then the film gets the job done. I thought some of the graphics and editing choices (especially the animated re-enactments) cheapened the overall feel.

Aside from that, this is another crucial viewing along with the producers other films 'Cowspiracy' and 'What The Health'. We're living in critical times when the consequences of our food choices no longer go unnoticed. You can make a difference simply by what you choose and choose not to eat each and every day.

I really like the way they expose the hypocrisy of those NGOs. I am always annoyed by those NGOs, especially the "green" NGOs, keep telling me "don't use plastic straws" kind of minor things yet obviously and intentionally ignore those bigger threats. Moreover those NGOs intentionally mislead people because they are probably funded by the related industries to conceal the real threats. How hypocrite and ironic is the world. This is not a perfect documentary film (maybe too few resources to make a series ), but this is by far the most meaningful documentary delivered by Netflix.

I thought this documentary was going to be all about the crimes and unethical conducts by the fishing industry. Instead, the film-makers have also illuminated the various non-profits and advocacy groups that are contributing to the destruction of the oceans through their neglect, obfuscation, or - worse - complicity. And governments, too.

This is an eye-opener. And quite depressing at the same time. There doesn't seem to be any good answer or solution, short of reducing consumption. Which in itself doesn't seem to very feasible, given that for many people seafood is an important part of their diet, and global population continues to grow. :(

The only sliver of hope is perhaps plant-based seafood products. That, like lab-grown meats, for example, seems to be the only realistic way to achieve sustainability. But, as the film ends with, that depends on all of us making a choice.