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Thursday, January 8, 2009

Film Live Every Week Like It's Shark Week

Posted by Lindy West on Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:27 PM

Wallingford Meaningful Movies, free every Friday night, is showing the documentary Sharkwater this week. This fact is exciting because it means i get to point you to Jen Graves's wonderful little review:

Rob Stewart, the boyish director and star of this film, can be a cheeseball. But he is so in love with sharks, and sharks need his love so much, and so many other people love to hate sharks, that this movie ranks up there, despite its occasional stinky ripeness, with the best of the rile-'em-up, change-the-world documentaries. Did you know that 90 percent of the world's sharks have been killed in recent years, largely by being hauled onto a boat, having their fins sliced off while they shuddered, and then being thrown back into the water, where they immediately sink to the ocean floor and bleed to death? You will see this happen many, many times in Sharkwater. If you love living things, this will be punishing to watch. If you love only yourself, that's fine, because Sharkwater is a straight-up action flick (it's a shark movie!).

Sharkwater plays tomorrow night, 7:30 pm, at Keystone Church.

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That shark looks like a mighty humble bumble.

Posted by Yukon Cornelius on January 8, 2009 at 3:54 PM

lindy, each time i read something you have written, my heart melts a little. xx

Posted by j beastly on January 8, 2009 at 4:43 PM

Tracy Jordan has some genius advice.

Posted by V on January 8, 2009 at 4:51 PM

When I was a kid fishing off the docks, some adults told me to cut the fins off of every dogfish I caught and throw it back. I didn't do that, but I wonder where people got it into their heads that it was a good idea.

Posted by ams on January 8, 2009 at 4:59 PM

@4 That's funny my Father gave me similar advice but it was for dealing with hobos.

Posted by Hop a Long on January 8, 2009 at 5:39 PM

@2, that review was written by Jen Graves. She's exactly right about that movie: while watching it, I couldn't help think that it could have turned out to be a Grizzly Bear sequel, but afterwards I haven't thought of sharks the same since.

Posted by josh on January 8, 2009 at 7:26 PM