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The Islands and the Whales
2017 · Film · documentary · 81 min
Directed by Mike Day
The whale hunters of the Faroe Islands believe that hunting is vital to their way of life, but, when a local professor makes a grim discovery about the effects of marine pollution, environmental changes threaten their way of life forever.
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The Islands and the Whales review – a community poisoned
> A protest group surreally led by Pamela Anderson arrives to stage a press conference, a part of the film which could have been shot by Bill Forsyth. In answer to Anderson’s slightly testy advice to embrace vegetarianism, the islanders reply that vegetables must be air-freighted into the shops – and that has its own environmental implications. There is a tiny undercurrent of anger elsewhere, a feeling that warnings about mercury levels are alarmist and disloyal. The local doctor advising families on this points out an airgun bullet-hole in his car. I sometimes wonder if a narrative voiceover (very unfashionable in documentary film-making) could have made the issues at stake clearer, and given an informative guide to the community festival at the end. It’s a very good-looking film, with lovely images.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/29/the-islands-and-the-whales-review-a-community-poisoned
Saw this documentary about the issue of whaling and came out with a much more sophisticated understanding of it.
The Islands and the Whales (2016)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5746140/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30YRnTO2FVI