Cat Soup

Cat soup is what introduced me to wonderfully insane world of Masaki Yuassa. I first saw it when i was 15, and the time was into edgy dark humor. While tastes in humor have changed my love for this short has not. Although many of the scenes are still funny in a shocking sort of way, this time my viewing of cat soup felt much sadder and poignant. When learning about the creator of the characters in the film and her struggles going though depression and eventually suicide and how this emotional effect people that cared about her. This film’s actual meaning became a bit more clear. The surealist portrayals of regret, loss and nihilism oozes throughout the film more now. The feeling of wanting to turn back the past makes sense with this new context.  Even without any of this information cat soup still succeeds in its atmosphere, humor and having kittens beating a pig to death after making him eat himself.