Remarkably Bright Creatures

Oh, what is it?

Remarkably Bright Creatures.

Remarkably Bright Creatures.

Yes.

Have you seen that? I haven't.

She was so good in that.

I mean, this list could go on forever.

And I think she won an award for Remarkably Bright Creatures and...

We were talking about the ocean and would you rather explore under the ocean or in space? And it made me think of a movie that I watched recently called It's on Netflix.

It's called Remarkably Bright Creatures.

Oh, yeah.

And I knew, like, nothing about it going in.

And for this Movie Club in particular, that we started this conversation around and Bianca, we had in office hours a couple of weeks ago.

Thereafter was about what's remarkably bright creatures.

So this is a film that was very much people think it's about an octopus, but believe it or not, it's about human beings.

And the unlikely bonds that end up forming through night shifts, people overlapping work, main character whose name is Tova for anyone familiar.

Oh, terrible.

It's somewhere early in the year because my 250th has now become the BFG and my 200th, Remarkably Bright Creatures, none of which I would have placed on the 50 mark.

So it's somewhere before

that,

you know there's another really lovely octopus movie out as well? Is there? Yeah.

is it Octopussy because that was years ago oh no it's not that one oh right it's called say it's Remarkably Bright Creatures on Netflix about an octopus

you get enough the fact that

you've got to show a bit of skin this

Now, Miss Peregrine and Spy Games were letdowns for me, and I think they suffered from a clear antagonist being identified and driving the middle build.

However, Remarkably Bright Creatures was a really good example of how external and internal forces can combine to force a character to change.

And while there wasn't a villain per se in that movie, there was conflict, there was antagonism and all of the characters were interesting.

So for me, your study, your area of study this season was a still reinforced concrete lesson in what happens when the villain isn't clear and what happens to a story when they don't drive the middle.

So I'm really interested in this area of study.

And what was surprising to me this season was the number of stories that have some fault with their logic.

Now, sometimes this can be overlooked, like in Remarkably Bright Creatures was one of those movies where I think there were problems, but other factors in the storytelling meant that you could overlook some of those logic problems.

But other times, once you see the logic holes, you can't look away.

And we know how that's gone because I've reviewed a fair few of Netflix's output over the past two years.

Midsize films such as Remarkably Bright Creatures were a success.

Apex got some attention, but swiftly vanished off people's radar.

The Rip, along with one or two big swings like Fincher's Cliff Booth and Gerwig's Narnia film.

Alright, let's talk about Octopus and Humans, and I want to start with a question.

Have you seen the film based on the novel Remarkably Bright Creatures? Because if you haven't, the premise is this, a grieving woman befriends an octopus at an aquarium, and that octopus, named Marcellus, helps her solve a mystery.

And when people saw that film, a very reasonable question started circulating online, is Marcellus real? The short answer is, not that specific octopus.

Marcellus is a fictional character.

Have you read the book about the octopus?

Remarkably bright creatures.

No.

Because that's one recommended by the same mutual friend of ours.