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Flow
Movie

Flow

2024 • Animation, Adventure, Family

Woke Score
2
out of 10

Plot

Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences.

Overall Series Review

The film is a dialogue-free, animated, post-apocalyptic fable that follows a solitary black cat forced onto a sailboat with other animal species to survive a great flood. The central narrative focuses entirely on the cat's journey from stubborn individualism to necessary cooperation, showing how different species must rely on each other to find safety. The story unfolds in a world where humanity has already vanished, leaving behind only ruins that are swallowed by the rising water. The themes are cooperation, survival, and the self-healing power of nature, not political lecturing. All conflict is animal-to-animal or animal-to-nature, without the use of human speech or complex anthropomorphism.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics1/10

The characters are all animals (a cat, dog, capybara, etc.). The film cannot rely on human race or immutable characteristics for conflict or narrative. Character worth is determined entirely by skill and willingness to cooperate for survival, not by any form of species-based intersectional hierarchy.

Oikophobia7/10

The film is set in a world devoid of people, which critics suggest is a post-human timeline where the Earth is healing itself from humanity's transgressions. Remnants of human civilization, such as houses and city ruins, are depicted sinking underwater. The narrative frames the absence of humanity and the return to nature as a form of cosmic progress or cleansing.

Feminism1/10

The characters are non-anthropomorphized animals without human gender roles. The conflict and resolution center on survival and cooperation, making human gender dynamics, 'Girl Boss' tropes, or anti-natalism completely irrelevant to the plot.

LGBTQ+1/10

The movie contains no human characters and is dialogue-free. There is no narrative focus on sexual identity, alternative sexualities, gender ideology, or the deconstruction of the nuclear family.

Anti-Theism2/10

There is no direct hostility toward any specific religion or Christianity. While the massive flood invites comparison to the Noah's Ark narrative, the film's moral law is transcendent in the sense that cooperation and selflessness are objectively required for survival, rather than morality being subjective power dynamics. The director avoided explicit religious or political messages.