The Cat Person film is proof that an internet sensation doesn’t make good art

In 2017, the viral short story about sexual politics in dating set social media alight. But despite concerted efforts to up the drama, it doesn’t translate on the big screenIt’s not often that a short story – a rather vintage literary form – makes waves in contemporary popular culture.

“Cat Person” set the internet alight. Its writer, Kristen Roupenian, then completely unknown, was hailed as a kind of prophet of modern dating. Many people wrongly interpreted the story as the sort of “personal essay” that was popular at the time . Thousands of women praised its relatability, hundreds of men slated it as “garbage”., which was published in 2019.

In a way, you can see the logic: the original story is almost violently from her point of view, a technique designed to reveal the pitfalls of seeing yourself through someone else’s eyes . But in upping the stakes and the drama, the film undermines the mundanity of the malaise that made the story so relatable.succeeds is in its grotesque physicality.

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