Wah-Wah

Tonight, I went to see Wah-Wah, a film written & directed by Richard E. Grant, about his childhood in Swaziland, in South East Africa. It is a warm, bittersweet story; about a boy whose life is torn apart when his mother leaves his Dad & him; and his father begins drinking heavily...a bottle-a-day man, you could use his liver to sole & heel Army boots... the boy's Dad soon remarries, to a lovely American woman, who loves her new husband; but can't stand the whole toodle-pip, tra-la-la, jolly good old boy chat that she called "wah-wah;" hence the film's name.
The movie helped me to understand Richard E. Grant a little more.