There’s also cutting about at some level of intermediate management in the zoo Van Hoyten, played by Joss Ackland (also from a thousands things such as Marple and the like, but notable for being the voice of Watership Down’s Black Rabbit of Inle), and Milo, played by Frances Barber (again from Marple and Poirot, and for you WoWheads out there, the voice of Lady Ashvane). They are both enabled and ratted out to the boss by tour guide and scamp Plate, played by Jim Davidson (from Big Break, and racism). This starts small with some shrimp, and soon escalates to them nicking anything that kicks the bucket around the zoo. They watch on loop a David Attenborough documentary about the origin of life, and its evolution into many species, and then try to see its end by taking time-lapse photography of each animal decomposing. Simultaneous to this, they become obsessed with decay. Eventually both of them become her lovers and father a child by her. The zoologists come to visit Alba regularly in order to ask her questions that might help them come to terms with their grief. This causes her a variety of emotions, one of which is a rancour at the lack of symmetry in her body. She survives but Van Meegeren amputates one of her legs. She was driving when the swan ploughed through the windscreen. He’s shagging this woman in a red hat and zebra knickers, but he wants to be shagging Alba.Īlba is the other woman in the car with the two zoologists’ wives. He’s constantly trying to get people to sit for reconstructions of Vermeer paintings. Van Meegeren is a bit too enthusiastic about amputations. He is good friends with Van Meegeren, a surgeon who occasionally comes over to the zoo and, at the request of Fallast, amputates a limb off an animal to give it a unique selling point. He prefers black and white animals because he’s colour-blind. Fallast, played by Geoffrey Palmer (from As Time Goes By, and Butterflies, and a hundred other things), owns a zoo. Let me take a moment to sketch out the world this takes place in. What follows is a meditation on grief full of absurdist dark humour and a yearning for completion. Two zoologist brothers lose their wives in the same car crash, when a swan flies into the windscreen.
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