 Are you sick of the big blockbusters and superhero nonsense going on these days? Maybe you need to scale back. Well, the film I'm talking about today is Whale Rider. It might be right up your canal. I was gonna say alley, but canal feels more appropriate because of the water and the whales. And let's start. Written and directed by Nikiki Karo, Whale Rider is based off a novel of the very same title. Actually, full transparency, I believe the book is called The Whale Rider and it came out in 1987. The film was shot in New Zealand. It has a very documentary style to it. Very kind of low budget, low res. Still very pretty though. Sometimes it's dangerous to follow a child actor throughout the course of a movie, but yeah, Keisha gets it. This girl is sympathetic. She's passionate. She wants to gain the admiration of her peers. And I do appreciate it going a little bit into the culture, which is something I'm sorely lacking. I am essentially a useless husk of skin and bone waiting for my time on this earth to come to an end.