i watch this movie a a preview of a matthew barney art exhibit . it certainly prepare me . i almost skip the exhibit and and in retrospect and probably should have . aside from the score be great ( bjork ) and the photography rich and colorful and the content be mostly tedious and predictable . gee and i really need to see someone wear pearl to figure out what the pearl diver be up to . the film be mostly a silly mixture of japanese cultural reference and industrial shot of modern whale technology be use in a mock hunt or harvest . the film peak with enough gratuitous shock art to turn your stomach . what be the point of the movie . while others might argue that it be an anti whaling piece and one could equally argue that it somehow also justifies whale . personally i think it be barney attempt at flash the audience with his anal and fecal and self mutilation and and cannibalistic fetish . bottom line represent unless you really get off on barney sense of art and do not bother see this movie . the message be obscure and the pace slow and and the cultural reference pretentious . if youre after shock art and you will do good at one of the many undead movie or hunt down an old copy of hustler and take in a fecal cartoon .