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This otherwise inconsequential bit of plot distracted me for the remainder of the movie.

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All save forLittle Fishpremiered this week during thevirtual versionof the2021 Sundance Film Festival.

In the film, a cute cloud descends over Earth, killing everyone in its path within ten seconds.

They receive food and other necessities via a tube suctioned to their window.

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Something about the weather, you know?

The cold makes the clouds condensations dissolve.

The cloud is the new natural selection.

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By the end of the film, Id perked up a bit at leastwewere able to go outside!

At least our clouds were white and not instantaneously toxic.

Rich people are able to wear helmets, but Seba and his family struggle to afford them.

They were born in this world, he says.

Like the relatively happy-go-lucky child inThe Pink Cloud, Sebas baby wont experience reality any other way.

Theyll never feel the paroxysms of sadness their parents do.

And then things get genuinely interesting.

Zac is trying to make meaning where there is none, says Olivia.

This is a psychological problem with humans.

We have to make a story out of everything.

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