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Feb 5, 2021 · 4 min read. “Little Fish” would have left a lingering, wistful feeling under ordinary circumstances. Debuting during a pandemic, however, adds a layer of poignancy to this story of a worldwide virus that causes memory loss, creating loneliness and isolation for both its victims and their loved ones. The timing is purely coincidental.
Little Fish. (2021 film) Little Fish is a 2020 American science fiction romantic drama film directed by Chad Hartigan and written by Mattson Tomlin, based on the 2011 short story of the same name by Aja Gabel. It stars Olivia Cooke, Jack O'Connell, Raúl Castillo, and Soko. It was released on February 5, 2021, by IFC Films.
- Little Fish
- January, Twenty-Two Months ago.
- February, Twenty-One Months ago.
- March, Twenty Months ago.
- April, Nineteen Months ago, Through October. Six months.
- November, Twelve Months ago.
- December, Eleven Months ago.
- January, Ten Months ago.
- February, Nine Months ago.
- May, Six Months ago.
August, twenty-six months ago. This is my earliest memory. I was twenty-nine. The last waterslide park in northern California was closing at the end of the summer, and I felt I owed it to my childhood to take one last run. I shivered in the wind at the top of the snarl of the plastic slides, picking at my old, too-small bathing suit and clutching a...
What I remember for sure is that by the time I'd moved all my things into Jude's apartment in North Beach, there had been a handful of cases. In the beginning, they called it NIA, the neuroinflammatory affliction, causing a slow deterioration of memories. And in the beginning, we were not scared. On the news, they talked about it as they had once t...
One winter night, Jude and I lay in bed in our apartment on top of the European pastry shop and cancelled our plans. I'd ordered Thai food and we left our forks in the half- full takeout boxes, mounds of noodles still wrapped in their tines, as if we'd lost interest mid-bite. Jude opened a bottle of red wine, turned off the all the lights, and went...
We ate dinner in front of the television for the last time that March, when the CDC held a conference in Chicago that was broadcast live on all the major networks. A young researcher took the stage to make the announcement. Her name must have been Dr. something or other, but what I remember is her first name, Melinda. She had blonde hair she kept b...
Things I think I remember: The enzyme had originated in algae from the Atlantic, a scientist said on the radio while we were driving home from another adventure Jude wanted to photograph. He pulled off the highway in Bodega and walked into the marshes. He bent down and splashed water on his face. Three or four feet away a blue heron stood stark sti...
Around Thanksgiving, Jude tried to find his father, who had been in a nursing home in Portland before NIA ever surfaced. We're not taking new residents, the nurse said over the phone. I'm not looking to move there, Jude said. I'm looking for my father. So is everyone else, the nurse said, and hung up. Thinking maybe he had been transferred, Jude tr...
I should have told her not to come. Sometime after Thanksgiving, the peninsula had been declared a safe zone, so Jude's sister, Amelia, rented a car in Chicago to drive to San Francisco. NIA cases were much rarer in the west, they said, because the Pacific Ocean was alive and thriving. And the panic, which was proving more infectious than NIA, stil...
After the new year, a startup out of Santa Clara launched a chain of memory banks. For seven thousand dollars you could work with a counselor to record your most prized memories, which were uploaded to a mainframe. For up to four years, your memories were available to be played back to you in a digital projected format, at your home or at one of th...
Since what we needed came from the algae, they told us to eat more fish so we did. We panicked and we ate all the fish we could find. The fishing industry appreciated that, had a boom until they, too, collapsed, and fishermen disappeared for days, weeks, adrift and confused in the graying ocean. But it turned out the doctors and scientists were wro...
Jude succumbed in May. I remember it was May because the cold snap had finally broken and we were walking down the shore at Baker Beach without coats, and Jude said, It's warm for January, and I said, It's May, and he looked at me as though I were crazy. It's January, he said. It's May. I held out my hand, showed him the ring. I said, We've been ma...
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Jan 27, 2022 · Synopsis. Little Fish is a 2021 sci-fi romantic drama, set during a pandemic (but produced before the pandemic) where people are afflicted by an illness that targets their memory, causing them to forget both long-term and short-term details. It follows Emma and Jude — a couple who try to sustain their relationship under the pressure of this ...
Feb 4, 2021 · Courtesy of IFC Films. A sad, gorgeous film about love amid a pandemic, Chad Hartigan’s Little Fish features not our real disease (it was in the can before COVID-19) but an invented one in which ...
Feb 5, 2021 · A couple tries maintain their relationship – and identities – amidst a global memory-loss pandemic in Chad Hartigan's emo-sci-fi romance. With COVID-19 still raging around the world, a ...
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Feb 7, 2021 · Olivia Cooke stars as Emma, a vet tech married to Jude (Jack O'Connell), a photographer and recovered addict. They live with their dog, Blue, in a home marked by a gratingly urban-millennial ...
