Pathos appeals
In reference to Blackfish
Pathos is important in an argument or documentary because in order to grab the audience’s attention you want to appeal and connect to them in an emotional way. Furthermore to lead an audience to action you have to connect to a motivational part of them, most people are or can be motivated by their emotions. Blackfish a documentary by Gabriela Cowperthwaite is a perfect example on how pathos can appeal to the audiences’ emotions to get them to feel sad while watching the documentary. Blackfish is a documentation of how SeaWorld tortures this show Orcas, SeaWorld has not taken action on the multiple trainers’ injury’s and death, and they keep it out of the media to keep the money flowing and the tourists coming.
Blackfish appeals to emotion through the entire documentary. The film first starts out happy talking about all the amazing shows that the killer whales have put on. The director was definitely not trying to break your heart from the beginning. As the film progresses, they start introducing some of the major complications that SeaWorld has had with their whale show. The director has past employees on the film to tell the audience their personal stories, and that always hit home to everyone.
The documentary always covers on the animal care and their living space. The whale beat each other up, which does not happen in the wild, and they always live in a confined space leaving them little room to swim around. Pathos is all over the place, when we feel for the trainer’s and the whale and how the SeaWorld Corporation unfairly treats both.
The documentary always covers on the animal care and their living space. The whale beat each other up, which does not happen in the wild, and they always live in a confined space leaving them little room to swim around. Pathos is all over the place, when we feel for the trainer’s and the whale and how the SeaWorld Corporation unfairly treats both.