Cat Soup

I wrote this for a class, which explains why it's a bit more analytical/spoiler-filled.

Cat Soup is a bizarre, funny movie, but still filled with cryptic symbols and meaning. The whole story is two siblings journeying to recover one of their souls, so there's obvious room for some hidden concepts. There's a lot of mechanical interpretations of real things throughout. Metallic butterflies leading them to their destination, robots disguised as villainous fetishists, and time running on clockwork that can be stopped by a planet dropped by a hungry god. The flower represents the sister's soul in some way, and there's a lot of things with water and magic that's hard to interpret. There's also a question of whether it all happened, with the brother possibly drowning in the beginning and the world being turned off like a television in the end.

It's an interesting style, with loosely connected scenes that show some meaning but can be easily ignored and just viewed as entertainment. The animation is simple but appealing, not very close to the typical anime look.

There isn't much to say about the characters, which are merely vessels for the odd story and happenings the makers cooked up. Without any real dialogue, they just push the imagery forward without much about them being important.