Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity.
These foreign films share the same emotional core, themes, and structural feel as Blackfish. Every one of them has confirmed English subtitles or dubbing.
Both films sit with grief, injustice, and feeling powerless. Both circle the same ground: corrupt institutions, life under oppression, and poverty. Both move the same way too, bleak, haunting, slow burn, and escalating.
What ties these together is grief, injustice, and feeling powerless. The world both films live in revolves around life under oppression, corrupt institutions, and class and money. Both move the same way too, bleak, melancholic, slow burn, and escalating.
