I saw the movie on TV when I was a little kid, the day after it aired all the kids were talking about it and all of them felt sad for the mama whale and felt orca was the hero

If you are wishing for the humans to die then you are not getting the story or really feeling for the human characters. Noland made a tragic mistake. Why wish for him to die when he was honestly sorry? Some of the humans that died were not at all responsible for what happened to the female and her calf, yet they died. That is something to mourn, not be happy over.

I agree with you and I have never seen the entire movie. I saw these key scenes last night on VH-1's "I Love the '70's - Part 2) last night. Wow! My college aged daughter was really upset. These scenes have quite an impact, much more like a horror movie, no, a tragedy. Much different than Jaws's impact. I love Roy Scheider, but, perhaps actors such as Richard Harris and Charlotte Rampling showed their reaction to killing the female whale by mistake in such a strong fashion. I've been fighting to forget these scenes since I saw them last night. Yes, very sad. Of course, the actors/comedians on this show thought it was all just stupid.
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I agree with you. When i first saw this movie, and specially the scene when the female orca was harpooned, i cried. Annd a lot. The scene when the fetus is expulsed out of thhe female orca's body was also heart breaking. But the secee that broke my heart was whenn the male orca is taking his death mate to the shore. This movie is much more realistic than most of it's genre.

Key word here REAL. This is about movies. Nobody wants to know about that site and watching that crap just encourages the sick savage that do things like that and post it online.

In MOVIES ,We are talking about MOVIES not life. I agree that watching this film is brutal and can't watch more than the first few minutes before turning it off.

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People can also react to other people being killed with the following emotions:
Sympathy and sadness.
I disagree with your belief that people react indifferently to other people being killed because we are confronted with it every day. That is not why. It is because they have not been taught to react in a proper way, either as a young person or as an adult. When younger, their parents and others did not teach them to feel for others, including humans being hurt or killed in a movie or television program and that you should feel sad for both animals and humans. As adults, they did not have people around them to let them know that inappropriately reacting while viewing something in a movie or television program would not be tolerated.

Psychology 101 here folks:
People react to other people being killed primarily with the following emotions:

1. Relief. Glad it's him/her, not me. It's a human thing. Self-preservation.
2. Disgust. I couldn't do that to another person. Most of us, anyway.
3. Fascination. What if that were me in that predicament? How would I react?
4. Numbness. Turn on the boob tube right now. Scroll through the channels. Count how many have actual violence, or implied violence, or are talking about violence.
   Not that this is some PETA diatribe, just an explanation on why seeing humans killed is like brushing your teeth. It's there in front of you everyday. Now when Fuzzy the Bear, or in this case, Shamu's wife, gets whacked, we feel different because it's not someting we are confronted with on a daily basis. "Poor little Orca, she didn't deserve that!" That's the other thing. Animals typically do not pose a threat to us. Other humans do. Animals are looked at as defenseless, whereas Roland Falk's example gives us the other side of the spectrum: "Stupid people shouldn't be over there in the first place." We always give our race the benefit of the doubt, that we had a choice in our demise, or that we brought it upon ourselves by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Sorry for the length, and personally, sometimes necessity breeds drastic measures. Like that food you are going to be shoveling down your gullet. Oh, and enjoy the show!
   "Now go away or I should taunt you a second time."

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I agree I unfortunately stumbled across this on AMC just this minute and was so disgusted I had to come look up this movie. It is heartbreak, both the scene on the boat with the fetus you all have discussed and also when the male is pushing her around after she is released (that was a good cry I didn't need today).
I know the old rule that goes you don't have to watch what's on the screen, blah blah blah, but I was just kind of in awe that that kind of thing could be considered entertainment.

It was pushed out, actually - I'd assumed that she had spontaneously aborted the fetus - a lot of pregnant animals will do so in stressful or traumatic situations.
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Wasn't the female hit by the boat and her abdomen ripped by the propellor? I don't think the fetus leaped out of her so much as fell out. Plus, gravity and blood flow could have forced it out that way.

I saw it last night for the first time too (and admittedly fell asleep about half way through!) but I'm curious How the heck did the fetus fall out of the mother whale when she was hung up by her tail?? I'm not a whale-anatomy expert by any means, but wouldn't the 'hole' be pointing up (towards the tail) and the fetus have to jump out of her or something? Please tell me if my whale anatomy if way off, but it just made me laugh when that happened. It wasn't sad at all