#capybara flow

[terapsina]

Sometimes a family is...

a lonely black cat with trust issues

(who has to learn that sometimes it's okay to accept help)

a kind capybara that's happy to share in its luck

(who portrays how even the most steady presence in your life might need a hand once in a while)

a good dog that just wants to be friends

(who has to learn that sometimes making real friends means learning how not to follow bad ones)

a heroic secretarybird that faces bullies for a stranger

(who shows how sometimes constantly fighting for the right thing can leave one exhausted to the bone)

and a kleptomaniac lemur that just wants to stare at its reflection

(who learns how to let go of the things that don't matter and grab hold of the people who do)

[billinshoes]

🐈‍⬛ Flow

[atesan]

STRAUME / FLOW (2024), dir Gints Zilbalodis

[catasters]

[stewrattius]

Congratulations Flow- Best Animated Picture of 2025!!!

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[zanwinters]

A family ✨

[sochimeric]

flow fanart!! go watch it if you havent already!! its pretty good and also unique in that that theres no spoken (or written for that matter) text at all

[a-rabid-snake]

I watched a cartoon called "flow" and oh my God, it's beautiful

I love when stories are not told, but shown. The case when everything is clear without words

And this work even has a moral. You will not be needed by those who seem to be your relatives, but by those with whom you have been through a lot and he has helped you. But not everyone will be able to stay with you, someone will leave and not return

This is not a cute story about friendship, it's true, a life path that everyone goes through on their own and maybe even with someone

I don't know, but that's how I interpret the ending

[sharksliveontrains]

You can tell how much of a banger this movie is from this picture alone

[terapsina]

In the Latvian animated movie Flow (Straume) who is...

[agentnico]

Flow (2024) review

Dogs and cats living together… MASS HYSTERIA!!

Plot: Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences.

I find it quite demeaning for a movie to be compared to a video game, however Flow invoked so much from that medium in the best possible way. From its non-photoreal aesthetics with remarkably accurate animal movement, to the rendered woodlands and flooded landscapes very reminiscent of the open world games such as Journey and Submerged: Hidden Depth. The latter in particular kept coming to my mind as I watched Flow, for the game featured this brother-sister duo on a boat traversing the sunken ruins of a beautiful word in a “relaxploration” adventure, with magical occurrences happening here and there. Flow works in a similar narrative style, only its animals instead of humans. There is no combat or fail state to deal with, just light platforming and discovering a way forward, as if it was a walking (or should I say floating) simulator. The video game resemblance is hard to miss, but I do think it works in the movie’s benefit, for it allows to tell its story through minimalistic simplicity, without relying on any exposition or dialogue.

That’s right, Flow is an entirely dialogue-free experience, relying sorely on environmental storytelling. The animals don’t talk, yet convey so much character and emotion regardless though their mannerisms and expressions. The animation of the eyes, though cartoony, was the most impressive, as with a simple squint or a shrink of a pupil you knew if the cat was scared, peed-off, curious etc. And again in regard to characters, no explanation is given but you already know who’s who through their basic behaviours. The main character of the black cat is skittish and untrusting, but happens to be a natural born leader with a great sense of judgment….and zero balance. Like seriously, this cat falls off the boat into the water like 50 times!! There’s the cool and reserved capybara, who doesn’t panic no matter how crazy the situation gets - always good to have a friend like that in a group. There’s a klepto self-absorbed lemur that honestly just wants to do its own thang, but everyone keeps getting in its way. But naturally it learns to be part of a team. We just know if this movie had dialogue the lemur would be voiced by Sasha Baron Cohen. And so on forth with the other animals - they all play a role and create this very watchable dysfunctional rag-tag group of survivors.

It’s the Robot Dreams of 2024, and in my eyes deserves the Oscar for Best Animated Feature - it’s easily my favourite of the contenders. It’s a wonderful, beautiful and immersive experience - a true vibe of a movie. Should also add that this is perfect viewing for kids - some great life lessons and themes on empathy and friendship, and the easy-to-digest narrative of animals going from point A to point B. In terms of complaints I’d say even though the movie is a short 90 minute one, it did overstay it’s welcome a little, and also there are a couple of narrative threads I wish had more explanation - the end of the character journey of the bird is a real out-of-place head scratcher that slightly pulled me out of the movie as it felt like it belonged elsewhere, and then there is the fact that all of the animals somehow understand how to drive a boat. Ah heck, let’s just assume they all went to boat school.

Overall score: 7/10

[s3znl-gr3znl]

im sure there are other examples, but i feel like the movie FLOW is a good recent one in how to tell a compelling story involving animals without having weird animal buttholes prominently displayed *coughcough* CATS 2019

[authenticallyaudrey]

Here's my black cat, adopted back in July of last year. 😊

[magnetic-maverick]

Flow’s animation reminds me of the animation for Puss In Boots: The Last Wish

[allmyrandomfandoms]

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Capybara who auditioned for the role of capybara in Flow vs the baby camel who was offered the role.

[astridhoff03]

This looks gorgeous 💖

Little information about this movie. It’s produced in Latvia and is based on a short film the director made a while ago.

Also it feels more right to see this and invest in the medium of animation than in the live action era that will start after the httyd live action remake.