{"id":188767,"date":"2023-10-06T12:04:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T16:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=188767"},"modified":"2023-11-06T22:17:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T03:17:17","slug":"review-cat-person-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=188767","title":{"rendered":"Review: <i>Cat Person<\/i> (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Image-10-6-23-at-12.01-PM-e1696608109697.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"671\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-188768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Image-10-6-23-at-12.01-PM-e1696608109697.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Image-10-6-23-at-12.01-PM-e1696608109697-134x200.jpeg 134w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Image-10-6-23-at-12.01-PM-e1696608109697-268x400.jpeg 268w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Image-10-6-23-at-12.01-PM-e1696608109697-67x100.jpeg 67w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis is a weird one. I don&#8217;t want to assume everyone on the planet has read the short story on which this film is based but &#8230; let&#8217;s just say the short story was a PHENOMENON. In December 2017, you could not escape &#8220;discourse&#8221; about it. Which is why some of the &#8220;inventions&#8221; in the film adaptation are so baffling. But it was certainly fun to write about the film! And the sex scene is a KEEPER. (And when do you get to say THAT nowadays?)<\/p>\n<p>I reviewed <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/cat-person-movie-review-2023\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cat Person<\/a><\/em> for Ebert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a weird one. I don&#8217;t want to assume everyone on the planet has read the short story on which this film is based but &#8230; let&#8217;s just say the short story was a PHENOMENON. In December 2017, you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=188767\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2556,2668,2566,2559,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188769,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188767\/revisions\/188769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}