Tom Hooper’s “Cats” is harrowing even if you’re sober.
An unholy, digital-fur-coated dive into the uncanny valley, set in a London made to look like a New Orleans red-light district, the movie boasts plenty of disturbing visuals: it’s a sexless world where the cats have no genitals, but there are cat breasts, cats thrusting, and little dancing mice and cockroaches with human faces pasted onto them.
It’s hard to tell how much of the nearly $55 million the movie has collected globally comes from hate-watching, or from genuine fans of the Andrew Lloyd Webber extravaganza.Well, according to a sweeping new story by The Washington Post, a fraction of that box-office take is coming from audience members who are seeing the movie on drugs, and the results are evidently transcendent.
WaPo has rounded up some of the best reactions from viewers that saw the movie on such mind-altering substances as shrooms,
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