CATS Is Transcendent

2019’s CATS is many things. It’s a film adaptation of a beloved stage musical. It’s a cautionary tale of VFX artistry gone amuck. It’s director Tom Hooper’s attempt to ground something that simply refuses to be mired in realism. It’s…transcendent?

That’s the argument that Media Processing makes in this video essay that goes through the infrequent highs and myriad lows of CATS, finding all the reasons it doesn’t work and yet how that in some way makes it work in a totally different manner.

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