Little Fish

It's a very depressing pastime but also a very relaxing one? What a gorgeous production from top to bottom with truly exceptional photography and sound design that homes in on all your senses. I'm surprised that Chad Hartigan was never on my radar until now.

O'Connel and Cooke are really the heart and soul of the whole thing. Giving truly grounded performances that is going to make you feel something. Don't care who all y'all are, you cannot look me in the eyes after watching it and tell me you didn't feel anything.

Magnificent original score as well, one track actually brought tears from my eyeballs.

This is a good reworking of Japanese American writer, Aja Gabel's 2011 short story. It's almost creepy, in that its subject matter only timely reflecting this present pandemic!

The film flows as a slowburner, a love story dealing with a degenerative illness affecting people's memory. Olivia Cooke is great as "Emma" as she deals with people she loves, fallen to the pandemic.

It also questions, isolation and the film's empathy is brought forth with science and the possible "cure". Using a fictional bay area landscape, it's palette of Grey's, blues, etc. are personafied through the film's cinematography.

This film is also reminiscent somewhat of George Romero's 1973 "The Crazies" (although I doubt that this film was being referenced by this film's production nor Aja Gabel's story). It worth a look, it's somber, almost bittersweet.

I was so sad the day I met ya... I can't remember why.

What if COVID doesn't kill you, but either slowly or instantly wiped your memory away?

Ahh, a beautiful tragedy, a tragic modern Romeo and Juliet.

Probably one of the saddest movies this year, Little Fish told a couple trying to hold on to each other with feelings in a world where memories are getting eaten away. Logically, as a way to test memories, you ask another person about a memory or fact that both of you shared. The movie was a slow and painful descent to the inevitable. It's depressing to see such breathtaking and beautiful memories that the couple shared being crushed into nothingness by the harsh reality.

As I said, I loved the scenes where the couple talked about how they got together. The little fish scene was definitely the best. It's creative and unique to the couple. However, the most beautiful part was also the most cruel part. Also, the ending just made all the depression before worse.

Overall, a beautiful juxtaposition of joy and sadness. 9/10.

...so when they're taken away, gradually erased, relationships are regressed and decayed, we become a stranger to ourselves, how should those around us behave? A deep and thoughtful piece on premature loss and disconnection encapsulated through two beautiful performances.

Beautifully made movie which in today's world seemed very realistic

As normal Jack O'Connell was superb, but was more impressed by Olivia Cooke who I would like to see more of in future films.