A couple fights to hold their relationship together as a memory loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship.
Pam says:
“The Little Fish,” reminiscent of the indie film “The Embers” starring Jason Ritter catapults us forward into the not so distant future where an unknown disease is wiping the population of its memory. The story unfolds from the perspective of Emma (Olivia Cooke) as she looks back on her life with husband Jude (Jack O’Connell) and why she feels the need to put their story down on paper.
Memory, as they punctuate in the film, is what makes us who we are. With all the baggage, the good and the bad, we have a history, alone and with others, that creates a complicated persona. But when memory fails us, who do we become? And how does that effect others? Seen through Emma’s eyes, we experience the devastation of seeing this disease wreak havoc on those she knows and loves as well as what happens when it hits close to home. The film comes full circle, beautifully, which makes us ponder about our current circumstance with Covid as well as the pervasive disease of dementia.
Cooke and O’Connell portray our main characters giving credibility to the concept and Hartigan’s direction thrusts us into their world. Apparently filmed prior to the onset of Covid, it’s an eerie futuristic and somber tale of how fragile we all are.
3 stars
