Saving Luna (film)

Posted on December 27th, 2008

I recently saw a “Saving Luna” a powerful documentary film which involved the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) and their administrative bungling in the rather insignificant matter of dealing with a over-friendly Orca whale. The whale was just trying to be friendly with humans because it had become separated from its pod. The Baby whale just wanted to have fun and he wasn’t opposed to doing it with humans. The DFO was dogmatic, inflexible, out of touch with the situation to name only a few of its rather obvious failings. What they all lacked was courage. Nobody wanted to make a decision, and by not making a decision they were totally ineffective. Fearful, authoritarian, and lacking wisdom these people blundered their way through almost 3 years of painfully destructive bullying of the public. Everyone knew the answer, but the people who thought they knew it all.

Arrogance and fear are the stock and trade of most bureaucrats and they prove it every time anything out of their routine of shuffling paper from one deck to another, challenges them to be more.

I liked this film! It is human, alive and thought provoking. I recommend you see it……

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