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FLOW, Let Us…

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Together it rises and together it falls, together it sees and together it takes us all.

Some lives afloat, literally, on a boat, do nothing much but are going with the flow. They rowed and roamed, the city and the jungle – thin line dividing the both not visible anymore.

The city now as quiet as the jungle, though decidedly more dead for it died stiff and in its rigidity that always glowed in its want to devour more and more and more.

But that it was made to go with the flow, it has long shed the many well-measured ideas of victory and defeat and has accepted with open eyes what it saw, what it is seeing now.

The jungle – quiet and alive – broke and fell and bowed to the Flow, peeking with wet eyes the beauty, the beauty of the Flow that the sun and the moon stopped to witness, that the winds tried to match, that the rain tried to touch – the beauty that came in the jungle’s share.

Some lives afloat, at times on a boat, at times moving in the wet jungle, did not try to stubbornly know the meaning of it all, deep breaths they took and flowed.

Not waiting and hoping for a miracle rather living it.

Source – Wikipedia
Source – Wikipedia
Source – IMDB

Flow is a 2024 dialogue-free animation film, written and produced by Latvian filmmakers Gints Zilbalodis and Matiss Kaza, directed by Gints Zilbalodis. It is the story of a cat and the animals it meets in a post-apocalyptic world where they all try to survive, facing the extreme and sudden rise and fall in the water levels around them.

Read more about this fantastic film that used a free and open-source animation software (Blender), that didn’t use any storyboards, has no deleted scenes and that used real voices of the animals.

Flow also won the Best Animated Feature award at the 97^th Academy Awards and also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film.

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Mission Undone

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Jagriti Rumi Cat Lizard Mission

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She had a folded newspaper in one hand and her slipper in the other. Eyes were searching for any movement it could see and strike. She was confused…whether to act or to call her room-mate. But there was no time as she saw it moving, the lizard could be seen now. It looked as terrified as her. She advanced and tapped the area on the wall where the lizard could feel the alarm…. It was a wrong step as the lizard jumped and landed on the floor and ran to save its life. Oh no!! It was worse she thought as the lizard was right under her bed.

She left the room, it was time to call her room-mate, it was time to discuss this situation for the sake of sweet good night’s sleep. But before she could leave her corridor she heard a cry, an animal’s cry, she turned and looked for the sound. It was nearby she could tell. Less than five steps ahead she saw the source. It was a cat, a big one, orange and grey. The cat started to cry as she tried to come closer and then ran in the opposite direction. The poor cat was trapped and confused. Drowsy and tired as she was, helping someone in need was a universal fact and law for her to follow.

It was 3:19 in the morning and she had just completed her assignment when she saw the slow lizard with quick eyes. She went after the cat trying to catch the sound of meowing. After crossing another corridor she felt the cat was round the corner. She tiptoed across the empty corridor as if she was a thief and turned right. A loud shriek mixed with two voices. ‘What are you doing, Srishti?’ asked a girl. ‘Looking for a cat…it’s roaming in our hostel completely lost and can’t find the way out. You heard her cry, Isha?’ said Srishti. ‘No! I went to the loo. Are you done with your assignment? I have not yet started, this is so irritating. Why do they give us ‘Home-work’, are we still in 1^st standard or what? I mean seriously. Anyway… have you seen the new episode of…’ Isha’s long voyage of questions ended as Srishti pointed to the cat that ran across the end of that corridor. Srishti dragged Isha along her in the rescue operation.

It was going to be four in the morning and it seemed that the cat was enjoying her game of hide and seek with the girls. They searched for the cat, while Isha talked all along, making Srishti weary of both of them. Too much of anything is bad and it was too much of the rescuing and listening for Srishti. She finally abolished the mission and reminded Isha of her assignment. Reaching her room back Srishti saw her room-mate was there too. She told her about the lizard and the cat. They laughed and soon were back to the daily routine of sleeping late in the morning.

Srishti lying on her bed thought about the cat…where could it be now…was it safe or still scared to find a way out…but cats are very wise animals and she assured herself that the cat will definitely find a window open. She gulped her relief then as she remembered that the lizard was still somewhere beneath her bed or may be on the wall. She opened her eyes to see darkness and then closed it tightly telling herself that the lizard might be more scared than her to wander here and there.

The lizard thought at the same time that it might be safe now.

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