A lonely elderly widow named Tova forms an unlikely friendship with a curmudgeonly cephalopod octopus named Marcellus, but unbeknownst to her, Marcellus is on a mission to solve a mystery that will heal the widow’s heart and lead her to a life-changing discovery.

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[–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I feel like a really high percentage of the trailers I click on here are horror movies or other films that just seem stressful. This one actually seems like one I'd like to see.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    It's a 'feel good.' You might shed a happy tear. And best of all... it adds hope energy to the heart tank which is constantly being drained by everything else these days.

    Narration and direct intervention from an octopus? Well, that just takes it into the realm of delight. They are such curious and wonderful beings.

    I only recently learned about how short their life span is. I never imagined it. The longest living species only list 3 to 5 years. They are so intelligent. Evolutionarily speaking, they must be getting stunted so much by that short life span. They are one of the reasons I liked the Children of Time series so much. In the books, humans introduce genetically modified octopuses to a planet, which form the most interesting civilization... but it really was just fun to imagine what they might become after enough time and natural selection.

    P.S. This movie not about an octopus. haha. The story line is just a plus.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks for the reply. Yeah, between the short lifespan and the fact that they don't have language to pass anything down to their young, they're very constrained on development. The world would be a different place if they lived as long as we do.

    I loved the Children of Time series - one of my favorites, and I read a stupid amount of SF and fantasy.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Alfred Molina voices the octopus.

    I see what you guys did there.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    I watched this two days ago on the end of a really frustrating day. The whole plot I was like "🙄how predictable🙄" but in the end I still cried an emotional happy tear or two

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