What I got from 'little fish' was a pleasant surprise. It's fairly interesting, quite charming and well shot for the most part, there isn't anything exceptional about it but almost everything works well enough.
'little fish' is about a fictional disease, NIA, that causes memory loss. This illness is a pandemic, clearly inspired by Covid-19, it seems as if it's affecting more people than not. We follow Emma and Jude, a couple who are experiencing complications due to NIA. Strangely and annoyingly the most unbelievable element of this film was the relationship between our leads, they didn't have good chemistry and it wasn't helped by the poor unrealistic dialogue and average performances. Both Olivia Cooke and Jack O'Connell had their moments though.
The presentation of many scenes is sloppy, it makes many of the ideas feel silly or unimportant when it's clear that not much thought went into how each sequence will be communicated. The climax of the will wouldn't carry any weight if it weren't for the emotionally manipulative music.
The score is emotionally manipulative. A large portion of the emotions aren't earned. Having basic somber strings playing over someone crying or a montage of happy memories isn't an honest depiction of a relationship tragically being forgotten about and it doesn't make me care for the events, it makes me unfocused on them and angry that you couldn't write a realistic, truthful relationship and had to use music in this way just to give us some sort of response.
At its core 'little fish' is saying that life is short and you never know what you might encounter along the way, so make the most of what little you have. I'm not the biggest fan of this idea and it's been done to death in film. It's explored quite interestingly so I at least appreciate that.
Despite my criticisms I still think this is worth checking out and you never know you might like it a lot, a few issues I have with this likely won't spoil your enjoyment as much as they did for me.
'little fish' is about a fictional disease, NIA, that causes memory loss. This illness is a pandemic, clearly inspired by Covid-19, it seems as if it's affecting more people than not. We follow Emma and Jude, a couple who are experiencing complications due to NIA. Strangely and annoyingly the most unbelievable element of this film was the relationship between our leads, they didn't have good chemistry and it wasn't helped by the poor unrealistic dialogue and average performances. Both Olivia Cooke and Jack O'Connell had their moments though.
The presentation of many scenes is sloppy, it makes many of the ideas feel silly or unimportant when it's clear that not much thought went into how each sequence will be communicated. The climax of the will wouldn't carry any weight if it weren't for the emotionally manipulative music.
The score is emotionally manipulative. A large portion of the emotions aren't earned. Having basic somber strings playing over someone crying or a montage of happy memories isn't an honest depiction of a relationship tragically being forgotten about and it doesn't make me care for the events, it makes me unfocused on them and angry that you couldn't write a realistic, truthful relationship and had to use music in this way just to give us some sort of response.
At its core 'little fish' is saying that life is short and you never know what you might encounter along the way, so make the most of what little you have. I'm not the biggest fan of this idea and it's been done to death in film. It's explored quite interestingly so I at least appreciate that.
Despite my criticisms I still think this is worth checking out and you never know you might like it a lot, a few issues I have with this likely won't spoil your enjoyment as much as they did for me.