Winner of this year鈥檚 Academy Award for best animated feature, Flow is the story of life on a post-apocalyptic world, where all humans have vanished and only animals remain. It is a fable about the importance of cooperation, of working together despite your differences. And it is an animal adventure, starring a delightful cat.
opens as the cat wakes in an abandoned building and notices that the river nearby is flooding. The waters rise, but the cat jumps into a passing boat. Inside is a capybara. And so the adventure begins.
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Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis made the film on free, open-source 3D software called Blender. In its treatment of climate change, the film has been compared to the work of Hayao Miyazaki at Studio Ghibli. Zilbalodis鈥檚 budget of 拢3 million, however, was tiny in comparison.
There is so much to enjoy and ponder in the film. I particularly liked how the animals were uncomprehending in the face of climate disaster 鈥� just like so many of us.
