Ring of Bright Water (1969)

[missyjack.livejournal.com]

Ring Of Bright Water is a charming 1969 movie about a couple who adopts a wild otter called Mij. Mij finds a lady love - but she gets caught in a fishing net and drowns. And then a farmer chops Mij in half with a shovel. Umm they don't warn for that in the trailer.

This movie possibly scarred me for life.

Comments

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

*screams*

I learned a song of that title and all I knew was that it was based on something about an otter. I am SO INCREDIBLY GLAD that my exceptionally oversensitive child/tween self did not know this information.

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

Whoa, THAT movie's off my To See list. Thanks for the warning.

[fanbot.livejournal.com]

I knew there was a reason I never wanted to see this again. Repression worked for me!
Add it to the list...
Old Yeller
Where The Red Fern Grows
The Yearling

Sheesh!

[raven-moon.livejournal.com]

+1,000!

Egad! I suppose I am sort of glad that movies like these made people care about animals enough to cry and be traumatized, but Jayzuz.... I hated those movies (though I thankfully never saw the one featured here....).

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

I didn't see Where The Red Fern Grows but I read the book and nearly cried. And I was an adult at the time!

I'm really glad I've been warned about Ring of Bright Water too. Wow.

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

I vaguely remembered that the otters died but I didn't remember (or had blocked) exactly what happened. I am definitely going to be sure to warn some of my friends about this.

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

Chopped in half?! What the Christ!

OMG!!!

[radteacherally.livejournal.com]

THIS MOVIE IS SO SAD! "I thought it was just an otter!" ---> saddest thing EVER!!

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain, that part of the film replays in my head every single time I think of otters :0(

[cajoje.livejournal.com]

This write-up scarred me for life.

[custardpringle.livejournal.com]

ftr I loved the book this is based on when I was a kid :( Unless I am forgetting a lot, it was waaayy less traumatic than the movie (which I have never seen). It's probably stilla round my parents' house somewhere.

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

I could have gone all day without reading that summary. D:

[meezergal.livejournal.com]

Now I know why my parents wouldn't let me see that movie as a child. I'm NOT joking, and I'm very glad they didn't. I would've been traumatized-- I'd be traumatized now, as an adult! D:

[tabaqui]

Oooh, that movie.
"That is an otter-proof ladder."

My sister and i still say 'what what what?' to each other sometimes.
*sniffle*

[beetle-breath.livejournal.com]

When I was in Scotland, our tour guide highly recommended the book/movie...really glad I didn't follow up on his rec! Jaysus