God's Angry Man is an early Herzog documentary about a fiery 'Merican TV preacher who shouts and screams at his viewers until they send in enough money. Pastor Scott is a strange character, in the brief moments of interview with Werner he seems lonely and troubled but he went onto have a rich life of bilking folks out of their cash in Jesus' name with little scandal or corruption. It's a shame the film is so dominated by broadcast footage as I'd like to have seen more of his life beyond the studio.
Despite the film makers over dramatising their night time escapades in Taiji the documentary
The Cove is still a powerful film about the seasonal slaughter of dolphins in Japan. Though the slaughter and eating of these cetaceans is bad enough (especially as they're full of mercury) somehow it was the trade in show dolphins that disturbed me more - stupid people across the world clap at these caged creatures as they're forced to entertain us for a few pennies, urgh it even makes zoo's seem nice. Anyways a dolphin
committed suicide recently at a Japanese water park - sure it was on the menu in no time.
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