She's Allergic to Cats (2016)
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What a cool title! It was immediately intriguing to read about a dog groomer with high aspirations who meets a dream girl…apparently allergic to cats?
Unfortunately, that is where the fascination ends and therein lies an underdeveloped and flat fairytale that dissolves into nothingness.
Mike is a dreamer…he wants to be a famous filmmaker in the Hollywood community and live a rock star lifestyle. Unfortunately, he routinely wakes up in a rat infested apartment while grooming dogs for little pay. And he can’t manage to even groom to the perfection status of the business owner. Let’s face it…Mike is a loser.
One day, Cora walks into the groomers and into Mike’s life. By mustering up a little confidence, he arranges a date with Cora while trying to solve the rat problem that is leaving his living situation in complete pig-pen disgust with droppings along the countertops and even in the food. Gross.
The psychedelic effects that churn within his brain onto screen are begging for an ode to the 80’s with little sense and logic behind them. His manager Sebastian carries the limited scenes he appears in with utter sarcasm and brutal honesty. Just a little satirical humor and cynicism kept me from turning this off.
It’s hard to find a reason behind the attraction from Cora’s point of view. She’s a beautiful and mysterious young woman who appreciates Mike’s situation (not sure why?) and allows her attraction to take over once they are in seclusion. Perhaps she sees a future project within Mike that she challenges herself to tackle? Either that, or she secretly doses on quaaludes to keep up with the absurdity that she’d ever consider a life with someone like Mike.
Regrettably, the tactic Mike generates to solve the rat issue in his home affects Cora without warning. A little TOO hard? And it spirals out of control. Mike is left with yet another trigger towards his failures.
This is a pathetic lead into Mike’s overall malfunctioning life and has no impact of any empathy while watching his demise. Still stuck in his hallucinogenic fantasies, it is an impossible feat to escape the weirdness and disconnect from reality into his unexplained fantasies. And I can’t say that I really wanted to go down that path into exploratory rationalization. My hope was more intentional of getting to the end of this terrible mess.