FLOW (2024) FULL RECAP

Flow ending explained & Breakdown

[bitters]

When people talk about films being art... This. This is art, and story telling.

[FAnd-bnwv]

This movie is filled of metaphors and analogies with our social and values system
Love it

[DavidDragoon]

What a masterpiece, it almost make me cry

[SumitYadav-xmdy]

I hated the stupid dogs. Selfish and reckless. Only the white Labrador was a good boi.

[sandraops]

The Cat is simply the Cat, it has not name. Flow is Water, no Cat's name.

[rossbooth]

I love love loved The Wild Robot, but I won't be mad if this beats it at the Oscars for best animated feature.

[taniania]

It really gave me a lot of questions after the bird just randomly left the entire falling action. Somehow, it gave me the interpretation that the tower grants *wish*. If you study the characters of the animals closely (even in real life) birds tend to k!ll themselves when separated from the group or their partners. (1) The crane got abandoned by its group, and (2) The bird knows that the cat knows that those dogs were bad news, yet the cat still gave empathy to the dogs, maybe the crane felt betrayed by it and lost hope?

In the end, they went to the tower, (i remembered the weathering with you scene, where the girl wishes for the rain to stopped, and similar situation wherein the scene (floating, water evaporates, a glimpse of heaven).
Maybe the crane gave up and wishes to go to heaven? maybe the cat also wished for the water level to go down/ wishes for some land?

or maybe the white crane wished that the animals would be safe by asking for trees, lands, and etc.- AND THERE the price for asking such wish costs the life of the white crane? (again this is weathering with you reference. With oriental beliefs that "Every wish comes with a price")

Although there are many interpretations that the audience could think of, we are still united by the fact that this movie touches the heart of every man. Even without dialogue, this journey of a cat is a very heartwarming and wholesome one, it's been so long since I've seen these type of movies. The movements, actions, symbolism, and its theme are spot on!

Almost burst into tears when I saw the whale, I thought it survived.. and maybe.. that's where the cat realized (that also reminded me) that "one's comfort, is another's suffering."

[Tms]

This narration of the movie feels bizarre. The beauty of the movie lay in being able to take in the brilliance of the animation and sound engineering and being in flow and not feeling rushed without any words. No words. None! 😂

[squallrowlandson]

Flow is kind of like an animated silent dark post apocalyptic version of Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (as they both have a cat and dog as protagonists), mixed with elements inspired by The Life of Pi, the Day After Tomorrow, classic Disney and Ghibli films.

[tmdtt]

Great video but the cat isn't named Flow.

[mikuskokenbergs]

Actually author did not mean for cat to have any name.

[Arts-xqiw]

The film is not about death or how to die properly. The film is about humanity. Among the people!!! Are internet critics really brainless? This absolutely charming, beautiful and humane wordless film is winning awards all over the world for what it is! It is cinema with a big heart. It's a movie about people. It's not a movie about robots, intelligent intelligence, thank god!!! Then give the award again for Terminator 3, 3, 4...I'm sick of it all. It is a world of beautiful, gentle animals through us.Humans.

[Vision-lzru]

This movie is an absolute masterpiece. I do have a couple questions though… what happened to the Bird? Did he sacrifice himself to save his friends and reverse the flooding? Did the movie imply that the flooding was gonna happen again? Did the animals sacrifice themselves to bring the flood back and save the Whale?

[sundragon]

I disagree with the interpretation of the ending. All the terrestrial characters perished. The final deer stampede foreshadowed the return of the flood. The deer stampede served as a harbinger. The herd of deer served as a metaphor for water encircling the cat, in other words, there would be no escape from the water. In the final scene, the leviathan rises and submerges against a horizon absent of land.

[moisesmartinez]

So this is what actually happens, a planetoid passes by earth causing a giant tide that covers the earth and as the planet arrives closer to earth its gravity pulls the water the cat and the bird upwards, then the planetoid leaves and the waters receed back to normal levels.

[infinityplus-zf]

You! Yeah you! Go and watch it. You will not regret it.❤

[thisguy-yvso]

So im fairly confident the whale survives. The cat had a vision where the deer were running and a flood followed behind them. In the ending scene deer in fact run by the cat and its friends, cat runs to the whale and sees it dying until the post credits when you see the whale again. The flood must have came back. It seems to be a recurring cycle of the flood receeding and returning. I think its safe to say the whale was part of the friend group the whole time (which most of us overlooked) and would have saved them again once the flood returned or atleast got onto another life boat. The more confusing question to me is what happens to the crane. Amazing film

[bugsycline]

This totally AI recap here just doesn't get the movie... at all... Life FLOWS within and without you....
The cat's name is not "Flow"... Flow (the word) is a part of Transcendation as shown in the scene with the secretary bird flying towards the sun and further the end where everyone but the whale dies.

[christianthissen]

après avoir vu flow tu peux mourir en paix !

[jenniferdawson]

We need to see this in Australia...When