Review: Flow

I loved how the animals were just a little human in theire behavior, but still very much themselves. I loved how I started thinking they were 'just' animals in a human world; I thought the dogs just jumped on a passing boat at first, and was laughing too hard when it was revealed they can steer. I loved the ambiguity around the world's history: the bed and human-centric construction suggests that people used to be around, but there's nothing that says animals couldn't have also built it all, although perhaps the state of disarray suggests otherwise. Maybe the animals built it all and couldn't maintain it once the floods started? Unclear.

Likewise, I loved the mystery of where all the humans went, if they did exist. Did an earlier floor kill them off? Did they fight themselves to death long before that? Did they merge with the animals, giving us our mostly-animal-with-some-human-behavior cast?

The pillars: dozens of boats float in their vicinity, wrecked. Did they belong to animals trying to escape the world, to ascend to something better? Or does it take a sacrifice to stop the flood, on the order of one per instance, and the bird volunteered? Do all currents lead to the pillars, suggesting that not each one was an attempt at salvation or immolation, but rather lives lost across multiple episodes?

I really appreciate movies that don't give you the answers, and let your imagination fill in the gaps. I've been a bit too busy to look up other people's interpretations yet, but am looking forward to it.