"Flow" is the only movie up for an Oscar that I've seen.

I've blogged about it twice — here and here. 

I didn't watch the Oscars, but somebody who did and knew I only cared about "Flow" gave me this minimalistic update:

Here's a Hollywood Reporter report about what I see was an upset: "Independent Movie ’Flow’ Wins Best Animated Feature in Upset/‘Inside Out 2’ and ‘The Wild Robot’ from powerhouses Disney and DreamWorks were also nominated in the category." 

I got Grok 3, and here's the first question I asked (and where things went).

"In the Latvian animated movie 'Flow,' what do viewers think has happened to make the world the way it is seen? It can't be Earth and it can't be rising waters of the sort our environmentalists warn us about."

I wrote about the movie yesterday, and here's my comment on that post with my explanation why it can't be Earth and does not depict a conventional earthly climate-change catastrophe. 

Grok 3 answered (so this is the first thing Grok 3 ever said to me):

"Flow."

I watched this on Max over the weekend and recommend it for the beauty of the visuals — I love the light and the water — and the wordlessness of the storytelling. 

There are various animals — cat, dog, secretary bird, lemur — but I was interested to see the capybara, because I'd just been reading this New Yorker article by Gary Shteyngart, "How the Capybara Won My Heart—and Almost Everyone Else’s/It’s not hard to understand why capys have a cultlike following on Instagram and TikTok. I fell for the giant rodent decades ago."

Looking back at that now, I see that Shteyngart discusses the movie "Flow":