Last night The Significant Otter decided we would watch a film ... " When the whales came" which, she explained as a "reason", was filmed on Bryher. So we did. One does not argue with The Significant Otter. Just to let you know before you read the rest of this, it's a rubbish , deadly boring and gormless film, boring boring boring and crap. Pathetic. Preposterous. After a few minutes all I was interested in was the scenery and any possible birds. Well ,we weren't far in when I picked up a female Tawny Owl on call ! BUT ... looking in my Trusty Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland I find that Tawny Owls do not breed on Scilly. Hah !! And later on, I heard the song of the Song Thrush .... but they do. According to the Atlas, that is. Later on, much much later on, it seemed about 100 dreary years, there were some whales ... narwhals, if you're still awake. One of them beached itself ...it was an "animatronic" Narwhal and most convincing. It was easily the most realistic thing in the film ! How ironic. To be fair, the two children were excellent. It's a shame it was all such a boring load of old crap. And full of preposterous occurrences and plot-lines. Why did their " shacks" have slatted walls with big gaps between the slats so the wind and rain would come in ? How did the main family's shack mysteriously get poshed up in the last few minutes of the film ? Why did we only get to see a tiny tiny bit of Bryher ? When the whales came and one of them got stranded on the beach, a big mob of flame-carrying layabouts and thugs came down to the beach to kill all the whales because they thought they were a bad omen, but the little boy told them they mustn't, so miraculously and preposterously they all changed their minds and helped to cart the beached Narwhal back into the water. Very bloody likely ! Why did the film portray the school teacher as such a vicious bastard ? And so was the father of the two children. Why do that ? No ... I thought it was a feeble, nonsensical load of crap. As do lots of reviewers on the internet. Maybe the book is a lot better. What we need now is a bit of fine and relevant music .... Right then .... here's the excellent Huw M and "House by the Sea" ..... The strange thing is, I spoke to The King of Bryher about it, and he liked it !
What ? That was my "surprise of the week." I wonder where those anamatronic Narwhals are now ? They're probably in some dark, gloomy warehouse in deepest Penzance. A sad and ignominious fall from grace.
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