In a time where many humans seem pretty fed up with each other, the Latvian film Flow is an adventure story that removes us from the equation entirely. A story deeply suited for our times? There’s no question of that, but just how suited is it? Only time itself will provide the answer to that question. Or more accurately, we will.
The animated setting of Flow is a study in beautiful bleakness, with gorgeous visuals of forests and a natural world that’s now left to itself. Mostly anyway, since animals (just as lovingly animated as their surroundings) are still struggling to survive in the aftermath of humanity’s worst decisions. And we have a black cat with wide, Disney heroine-esque eyes to get us invested as it wanders the ruins of what is to all appearances a post-human world.
