April 27, 2025 • 14 mins
"Flow" is an Academy Award-winning animated film directed by Gints Zilbalodis. He earned it, plain and simple. Shout out to him and the country of Latvia. It's Latvia's first Academy Award, respectfully. This is a film created with the application called Blender. Imagine that? A film created by Blender, beat Disney AND DreamWorks at their own game. Millions upon millions of dollars, and "Flow" took the cake. Bravo. This is a film about a cat who joins other exotic animals as they journey to find a better place for their lives as it was disrupted by a crazy environmental event. There is no dialog, only sound. IMAGINE THAT? Only sound effects of the animals and the environments they go through and music definitely plays along with it, definitely adds to feel of the film. You care for these animals, you want to know what happens next. That's their dialog and how the journey flows from one place to another, and as we learn about these animals who are the characters themselves, dissecting different personalities and how they with one another. It's crazy how universal it is to be that self-aware about yourself when you look at the mirror. When you do that type of action, you gain a great level of consciousness and these animals did that. Not an easy thing to pull off but Zilbalodis did that. I talk about how animal actions drive the plot forward. I talk about the characters of the film, how they act on a very animal-like level but all that is so relatable as how we humans interact with each other. Its as if we are all one, but in bits and pieces. At some point, they become the humans and we wish we can be there to witness half of it. Finally, a film where all audiences that enjoy but it also challenges the viewers - to look ourselves and at each other and be aware of what we have and how we can make it slightly better.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good morning, and this is Morning Real. If I see it,
I review it.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is a three to four to two hundred men
or so podcast of films that I review from all
ages Rated X. I haven't rated a Rated X film,
but I would say Zach and Mary make a porno.
I would almost consider it the next rated film or
Rated X or whatever. Anyways, I am here to not
(00:29):
talk about that. I'm here to talk about a film
called Flow. It's lot viend for Strawman.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
It's a twenty.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Twenty four animated fantasy adventure film directed by Glint zil
Balotis and written by Glint Zilis and mattist Casa. This
is a three D, you know, computer generated film. The
voices that you hear in this film are from actual
(00:58):
animals except for the capy bar. The sound that they
used for the capy bar was like a baby camel,
So that's interesting. Yeah, the director didn't want to use
the actual sound of a capy bar because it has
a very screech, high pitched type of noise, and honestly,
(01:20):
you probably used it probably would have sounded like a
horror film or something. This film, it's of its own kind.
It features nothing but a couple of animals. Really, I
mean animals period. But you have a central cast of
characters of a little pack of different kinds of animals.
You got a gray black cat, you got a capy bara.
(01:44):
You have a secretariat bird or secretary bird. You have
a dog kind of like a golden retriever sorts. And
you have that one.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Dude from.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
What do you call that one movie with Chris Rock
as a zebra. Well, yeah, that guy a ringtail lemur.
Either way, this film is very interesting because there's no dialogue.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
It's all sound. The actions speaks for its own self.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And honestly, like when you look at these animals react
to each other, to their own selves, it's it's almost lifelike.
I can't say it's completely lifelike, but this is a
fictional film. I feel like the directors bellow this. It
is best to be as realistic as possible. But at
(02:39):
the same time he gives you a touch of fantasy,
you know, the fantasy genre where some type of outside
source that is completely unreal to our dimension of what
we perceive as reality comes into play and pushes the
story forward, you know. But these animals, they carry the story.
(03:03):
You get to see their personalities just by how they
interact with each other.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
You know, the Lemur is very possessive, very zen in
a way, you know, kind of unpredictable almost, but very
zen and possessive. And I mean they're all aware about
what's around them. But I think the Lemur and most
of them, all, most of them all, the Lemur sees
what life is, really, what life is, you know, like
(03:28):
the other own societies of sorts, you know, very interesting,
black cat, curious, intuitive, and brave.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Man.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I swear this is a fictional animated film. Like what
you see is there's no there's nothing that's real about it,
you know, but you feel for these animals. You feel
for these characters, you know, and they're in No humans
made these sounds, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I mean we.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Record them, added some mixing and mastering and all that stuff.
But these animals did the work, and they created all
kinds of sounds for all kinds of situations, you know,
even if most were not used. But it's incredible that
we can do something like that. It's incredible that decided
(04:19):
to make a film like that. I command him a
lot used blender, for God's sakes, you know, that's really awesome.
He's nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature,
and I believe as in a national film if I'm
not mistaken, and I haven't seen the other animated films
in the selection of the Academy Awards, but I'm rooting
(04:40):
for this film.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It's really good. It's very plain and simple. This plot.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It's a post human, post apocalyptic world where in a sense,
animals were put on a pedestal. There were almost like
treated like gods on because you see these sort of
like man made monuments or man generated monuments of animals,
(05:09):
especially of a cat in particular. And it's funny because
this cat, you know, and I think it's the main character,
you know, we don't there's no name for this character,
you know, it's just the black cat. I think it
notices that this monument is something that resembles who this
cat looks like without even knowing it in a weird way.
(05:33):
It's kind of weird. There's a lot of reflection in
this film, you know, in the fagured sense, in a
literal sense. You know, you have the Lemur who carries
this mirror, and it's like one of the most powerful
things in the film, you know, it shows some type
of how we would perceive as human humanity ish type
(05:56):
of behavior where when we look at ourselves, we really
look at ourselves, we really notice all the imperfections, all
the things that we don't like about our bodies, I mean,
well about our face. And this animal every time it
looks at itself, it's just so surprised and intrigued about
(06:18):
what this thing looks like. And in that very moment,
I suppose not that it took a mirror to do it,
but it pretty much solidified the that this thing knows
it's alive, this thing knows it has a conscious, that
it's completely real in a sense. You know, it's kind
(06:39):
of hard to explain, but I'll hope you get the drift,
because to look at ourselves to reflect, we think about
a lot of things, a lot of things in our life,
a lot of things that are happening, and what's literally
happening right in front of us, which is our own self,
and sometimes we nitpick our own selves. We look at
our faces and we're like, oh man, just another thing
(06:59):
to lie like kind of you know, cringe about, you know,
for most of us, right, I mean.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
We have our moments. I love the ending of the film.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
But later on in the film, these animals survive in
a boat and they just sail. They don't know where
they're sailing, but they're sailing. The secretary word is very
very forward about things, very controlling in the sense, not possessive,
but controlling, like it thinks it knows what it's doing
(07:30):
and where it's going. Right, But you know, we don't
really know all these personalities. They all work with each other,
and they'll go through different spaces of land where we
would think how it would look like if it weren't
flooded and submerged by water. It's crazy how things work
like that. But it's you know, again the fantasy sense
(07:52):
of the of the film. What's happening? What happened to
the humans? Well, shoot, I guess humans round or cumans
just eventually ended its own, its own species, its own
living species, and all that was left is these animals,
especially this black cat. You know, and again gotta give
(08:15):
it to this black cat. There is a moment in
this film where the water was just rising and rising,
and honestly, when you look at the film and you
and you realize, like holy crap like this, like water
just came out of nowhere and literally rose the sea level.
(08:36):
Because I mean, I don't know how high those monuments are,
but honestly, they just look scary tall. We're talking like
maybe four stories tall, three to four stories tall, you know,
like a typical skyscraper of sorts or a typical like
business building of sorts.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
You know, like a sky rise of sorts. Three stories.
It's pretty tall, man. Lot of water.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
The cat is trying its best to survive, and it
knows that it does not like water, and it knows
that the space that's so limited that's surrounding this poor
little black cat creature. It's scary.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Man.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
It makes you feel like you're about to be flooded
by this water and like mad He's on. If you
were to see this film, that part would scary the most.
It would like make you want to not watch it, because, like.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
If you're afraid of the ocean, damn, look how the
ocean is now, dude. It's just like two or three
times bigger than itself.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I would give this film four out of four toques. Yeah,
a full full bar of awesomeness. I had great pleasure
watching this film. I like the animation, like how they
use the blender technology to make this film, because you know,
(10:00):
animation itself is an art form, right, and it's nice
to see something a little bit incomplete as far as
what we look at, you know. And it's funny because
the way animals see things, their vision is completely different
from a human beings in.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Every animal in all kinds of forms.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
So maybe in some crazy way because it's known that
there are like a bunch of animals out there who
actually took like five minutes out of their whole cat's schedule,
dog schedule, what have you, and be engaged into the film.
(10:50):
There's multiple reels on the tiktoks, on the igs and
all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
It's there. What if that type of visual anime.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Just creates some type of enticement for these animals to
lock their eyes on, you know, and not only that,
you get to hear the sounds of the animals, which
sounds very realistic. Anybody would be fooled, anything would be fooled.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Really.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Four out of four these animals man they embark on
the journey. They go to search for land, like any
smart species would, right, Why would you want to inhabit
yourself in water underwater. Those underwater scenes are pretty cool, man.
How the camera shifts, well, you know, the camera shifts
(11:39):
from the underwater level to surface level and then enjoy
to watch.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It's very cool what they did.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Man. I would watch it again just to get more
out of it, you know, because it's it's not a
it's an easy film to watch, but there are just
some things that you didn't expect to see in a
film like that, especially in animation. It's not catered towards
children really or maybe like older children. It's more cater
(12:12):
to preteens because I don't know, it just kind of
gives off those type of lives. But it's a universal
it's a universal film. The language of animals is a
universal language in itself. You have animals come together from
different regions of the world, you know, I don't think
(12:32):
they relate at least I don't know. It's a fictional film.
It's very spiritual. You know, things happened in the film
where it's just something that's beyond the human level. You know.
I think it takes a different type of species, a
different type of.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Being to.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Have that privilege maybe of witnessing such spiritual type of
events like right before your eyes.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
You know, it's a lot to.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Put on, you know, especially for anybody to type, for
anybody to try to understand. I understand it. For the
most part. I think it's great. I think it's cool
to show a perspective of how, maybe, in some weird way,
animals could evolve to a level that is very on
(13:23):
the human level. Because hey man, we got We've been
living with animals since practically almost the dawn of time,
you know what I'm saying, And up until this day,
we have evolved with animals like cats, dogs, lizards, birds,
what have you. You know, it's crazy how it just
(13:45):
kind of works. Follow me on Morningshell Films like you
and YouTube. Check out my website Marnyshell Films. I CEO
onto the next one. Thank you, and go watch this movie.
It's available on Max. It's nominated for an Academy Award
for Best Animated Film, and hey man, if it doesn't win,
(14:06):
it's already won in life. You know, it's got the
credit that this director has deserved thus far, and I
hope this guy gets many more along the way.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Thanks
Good morning, and this is Morning Real. If I see it,
I review it.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is a three to four to two hundred men
or so podcast of films that I review from all
ages Rated X. I haven't rated a Rated X film,
but I would say Zach and Mary make a porno.
I would almost consider it the next rated film or
Rated X or whatever. Anyways, I am here to not
(00:29):
talk about that. I'm here to talk about a film
called Flow. It's lot viend for Strawman.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
It's a twenty.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Twenty four animated fantasy adventure film directed by Glint zil
Balotis and written by Glint Zilis and mattist Casa. This
is a three D, you know, computer generated film. The
voices that you hear in this film are from actual
(00:58):
animals except for the capy bar. The sound that they
used for the capy bar was like a baby camel,
So that's interesting. Yeah, the director didn't want to use
the actual sound of a capy bar because it has
a very screech, high pitched type of noise, and honestly,
(01:20):
you probably used it probably would have sounded like a
horror film or something. This film, it's of its own kind.
It features nothing but a couple of animals. Really, I
mean animals period. But you have a central cast of
characters of a little pack of different kinds of animals.
You got a gray black cat, you got a capy bara.
(01:44):
You have a secretariat bird or secretary bird. You have
a dog kind of like a golden retriever sorts. And
you have that one.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Dude from.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
What do you call that one movie with Chris Rock
as a zebra. Well, yeah, that guy a ringtail lemur.
Either way, this film is very interesting because there's no dialogue.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
It's all sound. The actions speaks for its own self.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And honestly, like when you look at these animals react
to each other, to their own selves, it's it's almost lifelike.
I can't say it's completely lifelike, but this is a
fictional film. I feel like the directors bellow this. It
is best to be as realistic as possible. But at
(02:39):
the same time he gives you a touch of fantasy,
you know, the fantasy genre where some type of outside
source that is completely unreal to our dimension of what
we perceive as reality comes into play and pushes the
story forward, you know. But these animals, they carry the story.
(03:03):
You get to see their personalities just by how they
interact with each other.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
You know, the Lemur is very possessive, very zen in
a way, you know, kind of unpredictable almost, but very
zen and possessive. And I mean they're all aware about
what's around them. But I think the Lemur and most
of them, all, most of them all, the Lemur sees
what life is, really, what life is, you know, like
(03:28):
the other own societies of sorts, you know, very interesting,
black cat, curious, intuitive, and brave.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Man.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I swear this is a fictional animated film. Like what
you see is there's no there's nothing that's real about it,
you know, but you feel for these animals. You feel
for these characters, you know, and they're in No humans
made these sounds, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I mean we.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Record them, added some mixing and mastering and all that stuff.
But these animals did the work, and they created all
kinds of sounds for all kinds of situations, you know,
even if most were not used. But it's incredible that
we can do something like that. It's incredible that decided
(04:19):
to make a film like that. I command him a
lot used blender, for God's sakes, you know, that's really awesome.
He's nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature,
and I believe as in a national film if I'm
not mistaken, and I haven't seen the other animated films
in the selection of the Academy Awards, but I'm rooting
(04:40):
for this film.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It's really good. It's very plain and simple. This plot.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It's a post human, post apocalyptic world where in a sense,
animals were put on a pedestal. There were almost like
treated like gods on because you see these sort of
like man made monuments or man generated monuments of animals,
(05:09):
especially of a cat in particular. And it's funny because
this cat, you know, and I think it's the main character,
you know, we don't there's no name for this character,
you know, it's just the black cat. I think it
notices that this monument is something that resembles who this
cat looks like without even knowing it in a weird way.
(05:33):
It's kind of weird. There's a lot of reflection in
this film, you know, in the fagured sense, in a
literal sense. You know, you have the Lemur who carries
this mirror, and it's like one of the most powerful
things in the film, you know, it shows some type
of how we would perceive as human humanity ish type
(05:56):
of behavior where when we look at ourselves, we really
look at ourselves, we really notice all the imperfections, all
the things that we don't like about our bodies, I mean,
well about our face. And this animal every time it
looks at itself, it's just so surprised and intrigued about
(06:18):
what this thing looks like. And in that very moment,
I suppose not that it took a mirror to do it,
but it pretty much solidified the that this thing knows
it's alive, this thing knows it has a conscious, that
it's completely real in a sense. You know, it's kind
(06:39):
of hard to explain, but I'll hope you get the drift,
because to look at ourselves to reflect, we think about
a lot of things, a lot of things in our life,
a lot of things that are happening, and what's literally
happening right in front of us, which is our own self,
and sometimes we nitpick our own selves. We look at
our faces and we're like, oh man, just another thing
(06:59):
to lie like kind of you know, cringe about, you know,
for most of us, right, I mean.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
We have our moments. I love the ending of the film.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
But later on in the film, these animals survive in
a boat and they just sail. They don't know where
they're sailing, but they're sailing. The secretary word is very
very forward about things, very controlling in the sense, not possessive,
but controlling, like it thinks it knows what it's doing
(07:30):
and where it's going. Right, But you know, we don't
really know all these personalities. They all work with each other,
and they'll go through different spaces of land where we
would think how it would look like if it weren't
flooded and submerged by water. It's crazy how things work
like that. But it's you know, again the fantasy sense
(07:52):
of the of the film. What's happening? What happened to
the humans? Well, shoot, I guess humans round or cumans
just eventually ended its own, its own species, its own
living species, and all that was left is these animals,
especially this black cat. You know, and again gotta give
(08:15):
it to this black cat. There is a moment in
this film where the water was just rising and rising,
and honestly, when you look at the film and you
and you realize, like holy crap like this, like water
just came out of nowhere and literally rose the sea level.
(08:36):
Because I mean, I don't know how high those monuments are,
but honestly, they just look scary tall. We're talking like
maybe four stories tall, three to four stories tall, you know,
like a typical skyscraper of sorts or a typical like
business building of sorts.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
You know, like a sky rise of sorts. Three stories.
It's pretty tall, man. Lot of water.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
The cat is trying its best to survive, and it
knows that it does not like water, and it knows
that the space that's so limited that's surrounding this poor
little black cat creature. It's scary.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Man.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
It makes you feel like you're about to be flooded
by this water and like mad He's on. If you
were to see this film, that part would scary the most.
It would like make you want to not watch it, because, like.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
If you're afraid of the ocean, damn, look how the
ocean is now, dude. It's just like two or three
times bigger than itself.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I would give this film four out of four toques. Yeah,
a full full bar of awesomeness. I had great pleasure
watching this film. I like the animation, like how they
use the blender technology to make this film, because you know,
(10:00):
animation itself is an art form, right, and it's nice
to see something a little bit incomplete as far as
what we look at, you know. And it's funny because
the way animals see things, their vision is completely different
from a human beings in.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Every animal in all kinds of forms.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
So maybe in some crazy way because it's known that
there are like a bunch of animals out there who
actually took like five minutes out of their whole cat's schedule,
dog schedule, what have you, and be engaged into the film.
(10:50):
There's multiple reels on the tiktoks, on the igs and
all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
It's there. What if that type of visual anime.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Just creates some type of enticement for these animals to
lock their eyes on, you know, and not only that,
you get to hear the sounds of the animals, which
sounds very realistic. Anybody would be fooled, anything would be fooled.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Really.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Four out of four these animals man they embark on
the journey. They go to search for land, like any
smart species would, right, Why would you want to inhabit
yourself in water underwater. Those underwater scenes are pretty cool, man.
How the camera shifts, well, you know, the camera shifts
(11:39):
from the underwater level to surface level and then enjoy
to watch.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It's very cool what they did.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Man. I would watch it again just to get more
out of it, you know, because it's it's not a
it's an easy film to watch, but there are just
some things that you didn't expect to see in a
film like that, especially in animation. It's not catered towards
children really or maybe like older children. It's more cater
(12:12):
to preteens because I don't know, it just kind of
gives off those type of lives. But it's a universal
it's a universal film. The language of animals is a
universal language in itself. You have animals come together from
different regions of the world, you know, I don't think
(12:32):
they relate at least I don't know. It's a fictional film.
It's very spiritual. You know, things happened in the film
where it's just something that's beyond the human level. You know.
I think it takes a different type of species, a
different type of.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Being to.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Have that privilege maybe of witnessing such spiritual type of
events like right before your eyes.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
You know, it's a lot to.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Put on, you know, especially for anybody to type, for
anybody to try to understand. I understand it. For the
most part. I think it's great. I think it's cool
to show a perspective of how, maybe, in some weird way,
animals could evolve to a level that is very on
(13:23):
the human level. Because hey man, we got We've been
living with animals since practically almost the dawn of time,
you know what I'm saying, And up until this day,
we have evolved with animals like cats, dogs, lizards, birds,
what have you. You know, it's crazy how it just
(13:45):
kind of works. Follow me on Morningshell Films like you
and YouTube. Check out my website Marnyshell Films. I CEO
onto the next one. Thank you, and go watch this movie.
It's available on Max. It's nominated for an Academy Award
for Best Animated Film, and hey man, if it doesn't win,
(14:06):
it's already won in life. You know, it's got the
credit that this director has deserved thus far, and I
hope this guy gets many more along the way.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Thanks
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