Three Cheers For The Whale is both a love letter and apology to the family of the largest and most majestic animal on this planet we all share.

Marker uses the art of cinema to dissect and explore the role of the whale in human culture, throughout history- from symbol to food source to commodity.

His gaze condemning those who have subject these beautiful beasts to the most unimaginable of atrocities, for the most unnecessary reasons.

And to think, this, despite how endebted we should have been, after all they taught us, and helped us achieve.

By revealing the horrors of this obscene practice, Marker is attempting to elicit our empathy as a means to call for a much needed, and well overdue, moratorium.

Explaining, for example, to the Japanese that obsolete cultural traditions are not valid arguments to justify the continuation of this cruel practice.

For they also have harakiri.

He reminds us that our whale brothers and sisters play a vital role in the health of our planet.

The balance of nature.

May their songs echo through the oceans forever.

8 out of 10.