"It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales"
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The intent is plainly activist: credit the film with measurable consequence, justify documentary as a serious instrument, not a boutique art form. The subtext is more interesting. He’s laundering outrage through legitimacy. "Plight" softens the brutality into a civic problem we can solve; "endangered species" supplies the technocratic seal. Then he escalates to the United Nations, that grand symbol of global conscience, even though UN resolutions are often more aspirational than enforceable. The rhetorical move is strategic: if the UN moved, you should, too.
Context matters because Wavy Gravy comes out of an era when counterculture learned to speak two languages at once: the vibe of protest and the grammar of institutions. This quote performs that bilingualism. It treats empathy as the entry point, but it insists on receipts: impact, resolution, endangered status. In a media ecosystem that constantly asks what any story "does", Gravy offers a clean answer - documentary as pipeline from witness to law, from spectacle to restraint.
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| Topic | Ocean & Sea |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Gravy, Wavy. (n.d.). It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-had-an-enormous-impact-to-the-point-of-the-107717/
Chicago Style
Gravy, Wavy. "It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales." FixQuotes. Accessed February 1, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-had-an-enormous-impact-to-the-point-of-the-107717/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-had-an-enormous-impact-to-the-point-of-the-107717/. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
