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Thie film is full of symbols.

The drying whale bones, the unforgiving sea, the incessant run of seasons.

And in the middle a tale of corruption and venality.

Even the church is in on the game that threatens to take the last outpost of a dying sea town away from the last guy who wants to live there.

This is a tale as old as civilization. Them that has wants. Them that has gets.

I thought it was a little long when I saw the first half yesterday, but now, with the conclusion, I take that back. It is as long as it needs to be and that is that.

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.

Leviathan (2014)

in beautiful color with a heavy dose of subtitles from the Russian.

But you can always rewind a little to gawk at the scenery and digest what the good guys and the bad guys are saying.

I also suspect that we could turn the sound off and still get what is going on.

A 4 ouit of Netflix5.

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