From the start, yeah, this looks to be a strange one. A zoo. People working said zoo. Car crash outside the zoo, swan related. Two dead. Not really a great way to start off a story. I mean, it’s just all rather depressing now, isn’t it? And being British, that is just even more suitable. Rather disappointing in all, really.
For the plot, despite it being British, it does most certainly comes off a bit more...French...in nature? I’m still scarred by Holy Motors and the debacle that was. This one is different in its own right, but veers off into some Cronenberg kind of territory. But since it’s British, it’s Polite Cronenberg. So unsettling overall, and with weird psychological and biologic unpleasantries, through the grief of two brothers who lost their wives in said Swan incident. Their grief recovery process is...a tad disturbing.
I don’t know who recommended this movie to me. It got put on a list at some point. The title was rather unique, you know. So it was always there, lurking. I guess I shoulda done this one during the animal theme but spaced it. Now? Now I kinda wish I remembered who recommended this film to me, so that I may tell them to right proper piss off. Fkn wanker. This movie is bollocks, as the parlance goes. I guess it is shot okay though. And the time lapse footage is good, if just, well, you know, morbid.
