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Oddly enough, the dialogue is rather flat — after all, there’s not much to discuss over drinks and supper other than the weather and the fishing. Nothing of substance, wind power projects and the like, ever seems to arise. Inexplicably so. “God guard thee wind swept land, God guard thee frozen land,” they sing. “But most of all, God guard thee, globally-warmed land.”This is actually part two of “An Inconvenient Truth.” Convinced that it’s the devil who’s brain-washed Newfoundlanders into embracing global warming, Al Gore flies to Newfoundland on his private jet with a priest aboard to perform an exorcism on each and every townie and bayman basking in the sun’s rays.
Gore and his priest also fail because of the profound refusal of the local populace to participate in any efforts to resurrect centuries of soul-destroying weather.Again, not to be confused with the Academy Award-winning film about bullying, this particular movie takes place in The Battery and gives new meaning to the oft-used order from movie directors of “lights, camera, action.”
It has multiple themes, but political gobbledygook is the common denominator throughout the movie’s dialogue. One scene, in particular, has drawn a great deal of attention: Breen and most of his councillors are washing their hands in water near the Battery, in an illustration of neutrality. They appear to be chanting, “There’s shag all we can do.