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I really like this docu this is another
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documentary uh it's shark season and uh
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so this this is interesting because uh
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in the summer uh in the summer like
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2015 um off of Cape Cod Massachusetts uh
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every summer you go out you start
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surfing you know surf summer uh in 2015
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or 13 somewhere around in that time
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period um a surfer is eaten by a great
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white shark so basically this is uh this
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movie documentary is real life jaws uh
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in fact weirdly enough uh there are a
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lot of origins of this movie with jaws
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uh because it deals with uh a rise in
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shark attacks along Cape Cod and a lot
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of it had to do with jaws because when
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Jaws came out uh people just started
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getting afraid of sharks and started
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uh to the point where they the numbers
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really dwindled and so uh they stepped
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in with the Marine Mammal protection act
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along Cap Cod and so you couldn't hunt
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sharks uh you couldn't hunt anything and
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uh over that time over a couple decades
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uh the shark population grew and grew
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and grew to the point where now sharks
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were attacking people and uh so the
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question is well what do we do about it
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and this documentary is about what is
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this community going to do about it
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because people want to surf but they're
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too afraid to go out there during surf
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season uh otherwise they're going to get
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eaten by a shark so what was the problem
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well the problem is going to surprise
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you but not only was the shark
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population growing but the seal
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population was growing uh they talked
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about how early in the early days the
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2000s you you go out every summer and
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you see maybe four five uh maybe a dozen
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seals now you go out into uh the ocean
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and you'll see hundreds of
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seals uh why is this important because
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sharks eat seals and they attack seals
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and so now as the seal population is
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growing and becomes unmanageable now the
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shark population is growing and becoming
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unmanageable and not only that now
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they're killing people and so this
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documentary kind of goes through the
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issues about that you know do you start
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you know hunting seals like you you hunt
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uh other animals to to control its
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and and one of the most fascinating
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things about this documentary is um
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beyond the hey C seals are cute don't
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kill him but now there's scientists
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coming out here and that there's two
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factions of scientists uh one from the
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area and another uh kind of a nationally
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Foundation and they start competing with
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one another uh they start uh you know
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there there's there's a tur war going on
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scientists uh and all this is say is
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that the reason I love this movie is
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because uh it's it's it brings up an
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issue regarding you know uh
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ecology uh animals whether you should
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hunt them or not um and then it also
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brings up issues of uh of government and
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um you know there are certainly sides
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here people who want to hunt these so
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that the waters are safer and the others
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who are basically saying no you can't
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hunt animals period and uh they debate
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back and forth and the government has to
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get involved and the government won't
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let them hunt um and and I think what I
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like most about this documentary is how
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it presents both sides uh it just
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presents the facts it doesn't demonize
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it doesn't de deify any side it just
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lets you listen to both sides of an
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issue and make a decision for yourself
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um evil is there an evil mayor like we
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need those summer dollars we need summer
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dollars well there's a I think you can
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make a case that there's an evil
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researcher oh good but but I I'll tell
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you this Bradley Gibson wrote the review
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for us I've seen the movie uh Bradley
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and I disagree on the conclusions about
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this and which is what I find
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interesting about this movie is because
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we saw we were presented with the same
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facts and we came up on other sides of
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issues awesome so you recommend it I
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recommend this I recommend it I because
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think you know documentary should go in
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non-bias it even if you have a bias you
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should fairly present the other side in
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your documentary one that does it I wish
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more documentaries were like that here's
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the facts you decide what to think the
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problem with modern docs
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today they already know what conclusion
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they want to draw before they make the
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disappointing I prefer docs that um
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leave it up to the viewer what to uh
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decide yeah also yeah because this this
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story has ramifications not tourism is
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one of them because you can't go as a
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tourist you don't want to go into shark
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infested waters the other thing is the
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fishing industry these sharks and these
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seals are voracious eaters and it has
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decimated the fishing industry off of
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and again what do you do what do you do
