The whale and the squid seemed a strange title for a film. It was though quite entertaining, being about the break down of a family where the parents were splitting and the affect this had on the two boys. The father an interlectual driven by slagging off anything none interlectual, his wife now writing more acclaimed books than he used to. The older son modelling himself on his father and experiencing his first sexual situations. The younger boy drawn more to the mother and exhibiting strange behaviour due to the breakup.