If my solitude was a fish, it’d be so enormous, so militant: Fish Story (2009)

Aside from the new Hanna Jo story recently, I haven’t written on this blog in months.  That’s true, even with Wonder Woman coming out not that long ago, and even more recently, Spider-Man:  Homecoming.  I never even penned a commentary on Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2!

But now I’m back, and what has brought me out of these non-writing doldrums?  None of those films, actually, but rather another oddity of a film that I recently watched, and it’s called Fish Story.

47 Movie Blogs #41 – Seven Movies That My Apocalyptic Bunker Would Be Stocked With…In the Darkest Timeline!

So the idea here reflects back on the entry in this series from 5 posts ago, where I talked about the seven movies I’d stock my apocalyptic bunker with.  You can read it here.  But in this case, it turns out that not only am I in the middle of some sort of global apocalypse, but also I’m in the darkest timeline.

Things that make you go “Wha–!?!?!??!??!!!?” – Twilight of the Cockroaches

Years ago, I was the local video shop (which at the time was a bit of a quest to get to), choosing this week’s entertainment, when I came across something I had never heard of before: a Japanese, half animated / half live action film called Twilight of Cockroaches. The movie promised an apocalyptic allegory after which I would never look at cockroaches in the same way again. I picked it up and the resulting viewing experience turned out to be one of the strangest ones I’d ever had. From memory, it drove away more than one friend who started it with me (including the woman who later became my wife), and though I have never seen it since it has left an indelible mark in my memory.

So, going off of that indelible mark only, and absolutely no further research whatsoever, I’m going to try to recount the movie’s story.

Apocalypse (Friday Fictioneers)

It’s no longer Friday, but it’s time for Friday Fictioneers, a short “Flash Fiction” exercise that is hosted here.  Stories are constructed that are ideally 100 words or less, inspired by a weekly photograph.  The story is below