Sharkwater

Last night we were off to Queensway to catch a film. We weren't sure which one, but we wanted something in the light, popcorn-y vein (Blades of Glory was a contender). Anyway, for no apparent reason, once we got there we decided to check out Sharkwater.

We didn't know it at the time but the filmmaker, Rob Stewart was actually at the cinema, he had done a Q&A session after the early showing and he did a brief talk before the showing that we watched.

Anyway, enough of the set-up, this film was incredible. It will change everything you thought you knew about sharks. Jaws, Deep Blue Sea, Open Water you realize that they have done for sharks essentially what so many fairy tails did for wolves, turn a natural part of an ecosystem into a caricatured monster focused on preying on the flesh of humans.

Sharkwater counters that with images of sharks as beautiful almost poetic creatures that are more victims of commercial fishing than monsters of the deep. What we do to them is far more destructive than anything they could do to us. Watch this film.