kontextmaschine:

Watching Cats 2019. Thoughts:

• God, is Rumpleteazer fuckable.
• They do a really good job assembling the material into a kinda coherent plot, with the “Victoria” character.
• And the way they vision the Jellicles as like, a theater troupe of street kids putting on a show is brilliant.
• As is the way they kind of make the setting the early 80s of the show’s debut by making it pre-WWII London.
• Skimbleshanks!
• Taylor Swift manages to make being a slinky naughty catgirl astoundingly sexless.
• She is not used well in this at all, but she (& Judi Dench & Ian McKellen) really seems to be enjoying herself.
• They really do right by Mr. Mistoffeles.
• They do Memory well. You have to do it, and make a big thing of it, but there’s so many directions you could go overboard.
• Really feels like they got to the end and realized they didn’t give Judi Dench a song and were like “What do we still have? ‘The Ad-dressing of Cats’?”

The key is Taylor is clearly living out the relationship to the material she had as a kid, before she discovered sex