![]() 'A complex and beautiful tale of Luna, a lost killer whale, and the people he touches. In the end, THE WHALE explores one of the greatest of mysteries: Who are these lives who share the planet with us humans, and what are the connections between us that we do not yet know? Finally even the filmmakers get swept up in events that catch everyone by surprise and challenge the very nature of that special and mysterious bond we humans call friendship. To Luna this must be great, but in this human conflict above him, someone has to win and someone has to lose, and where will his friends be then? As the officer tries to lead Luna into the net, the First Nations elder sings and paddles and tries to lead him away, and Luna plays among the boats like a kid out of school. Then, suddenly, as the two sides start to fight over Luna on the wind-swept water, the young whale has all the friends he wants. The First Nations' members bring out their canoes. The ship's cook doesn't know what to do except marvel when she looks in his eyes. The elder believes Luna is supernatural, the sea's source of wisdom and justice. The young First Nations man thinks that's disrespectful because his band says Luna is the spirit of a chief. The fisheries officer wants Luna captured and trucked away to try to force him to connect with his family. When the government tells people they can't even look at Luna, people still go out to meet him, like smugglers carrying friendship through the dark.īut friendship is complicated, even among humans themselves, and does it work between species? People who love Luna don't agree on how to help him. Policemen arrest people for rubbing Luna's nose. This effort becomes hilarious and baffling, because Luna refuses to give up his search for a social life. But the government decides that being friendly with Luna is bad for him, and tries to keep him and people apart. ![]() ![]() People fall in love with him - a cook on an old freighter, a gruff fisheries officer, an elder and a young man from a First Nations band. ![]() When you whistle at him, he squeaks and whistles back. He begs for attention at boats and docks. Like us humans, orcas are highly social and depend on their families, but Luna finds himself desperately alone. One summer in a fjord called Nootka Sound on the remote west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, a young killer whale whom people call Luna gets separated from his pod. ![]()
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