"The Cove" and "My Summer of Love"

This blog needs a new name. Instead of "2 movies a week" it should be titled "2 movies whenever I fucking feel like it." - Well, I feel like it now. So, enjoy(?).



The Cove - (2009, USA/Japan)


This is a documentary, which is unauthorized, that is heartbreaking and enraging simultanionuly. I'm guessing most of you saw "Blackfish" -it is on netflix. Apparently that film had a lot of half-truths to it. This is the Blackfish that is more real, less sensational, and therefore more poingant.

Dolphins are being killed by the thousands in a small cove in Taiji, Japan. The mamals are horded into a small cove. There, the trainers from Sea World and the like come and choose the bottle-nose's they want for their park.

What happens next is horrific. The remaining dolphin's are slaughtered. Next, they are sold for their meat despite having very high levels of posionous mercury.

The documentary crew gets amazing footage of all this through hidden cameras. This documentary is not to be missed.

This seems to be a lasting barbaric tradition that contiunes on due to that same evil: tradion.

While this all seems like a terrible bummer, the film is not. It's very interesteing and will make you want to write a letter to your local Japanese congressman.

My Rating: 5/5




My Summer of Love - (2004, UK)


This movie is a love story. That's the simplest way to put it. Not just the joy and happiness of love, but the messiness and pain of it, too.

Our love birds with a summer of nothing but hanging around, drinking wine, smoking cigaretts, sharing life details, and generally laughing at the absurdity of their surrounding community in Yorkshire.

They, slowly but surely, get close. All either of them have is the other. They share their pain and as things progress, become lovers.

I don't want to give the impression that everything is peachy in "the valley." Nearly everyone who has a speaking part in the movie comes across ass desperate, slightly dark, and looking for meaning in their stagnent surroundings.

It's not a huge spoiler to say things dont exactly work out in the end. It's true to life in this way and just about every other way in the movie. I've watched this movie with someone who liked it but complained it was to dark and desperate. In my humble opinion, that is how life is for the majority of us.

Everyone just trying to survive and find a little connection and happiness while we're here.

The movie's ending is wonderful and I won't spoil it for you. I'd recomend this movie.

My Rating: 4.5/5