i will tell you a tale of the summer of 1994. a friend and i attend a canada day concert in barrie and and it be a who who of the top canadian band of the age . we get there about 4am and wait in line most of the morning and and when the door open at 9am and we be among the first inside the gate . we then wait and wait in the hot sun and slowly broil but we do not care and because the headliner be among our favourite . at one point and early in the afternoon and i sit down and doze off with my back to the barrier . i be awaken to my shock and dismay by a shriek girl wear a rheostatics t shirt . this be the reason i have hat the rheostatics to this day . there nothing reasonable and nor taste determine and nor really anything except their fandom . snotty of me and isn not it . so and i and in my hatred of the band and have deny myself the delight that be whale music . desmond howl have it all . it hard to say what he lose and since he live in a fantastic mansion wedge between the ocean and the mountain ( the bc region where the movie be shoot be breathtaking ) . the life most of u dream of be dismantle by dream and phantom and and his own past and until the day a teenaged criminal break in . and and trite a it sound and break him out . canadian cinema suffers from several problem . generally and a lack of money and as well a an insufferable lack of ask for help ( a if somehow the feature would cease to be canadian ) lead to lower production value than american or british film and and most people do not like to watch anything that sound or look like and well and not like an american film . next and canadian screenwriter often seem so catch up in be weird that they lose sight of how to tell a good story and and tell it well . third and they seem to think that gratuitous nudity ( often full frontal ) make something artistic . i be sure anyone who watch enough canadian movie and especially late at night on the cbc and know exactly what i be talk about . it almost like a do not do this handbook exist out there somewhere and canadian film maker throw it out a long time ago . in the 90 and 00s and however and some film ( such a bruce mcdonald work and the brilliant c. r. a. z. y . ) have break this mold and and manage to maintain what make them canadian and while hold onto watchable production value and great story . whale music be such a film and on the surface . deep than just it canadian ism and it a deeply move story of a man who lose his grip and through grief and excess and who be redeem by music then by love . and that redeem even the rheostatics . positive .