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}}'''''Cats''''' is a 1951 Cryrian dramatic comedy film loosely based on the 19011905 horror novel written by H.K. Loveless. The production was primarily driven by Rikard Forslund, who wrote the screenplay and produced the film with Casper Ulf.
 
 
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The film was loosely based on a 19011905 horror novel written by H.K. Loveless, which drew extensively from bastardized Vhydhaszi myths and the author's own apparent fears of a world overrun by Packilvanian felines who would "Utilize every manner of foul occultry and deception to swarm the Urth in a neverending tide of fur and degeneracy." While Loveless is well known as the founder of the Cryrian Thalassic Horror genre, this novel is generally held as an example of his extreme speciest views. Though initially obscure, it gained fame during the Great War when it was used for anti-Packilvanian propaganda purposes by the Cryrian government.
 
 
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''Cats'' released in 1951 and proved to be surprisingly successful, as few audience members were aware of Loveless' book and many came to see the special effects utilized to portray the God-in-Flesh at the film's climax. The actual plot of the film was largely disregarded and dismissed by critics as secondary to the visual spectacle, and its efforts at comedy described as "listless." Several musical numbers performed by the nekomimi characters have been referred to as "disruptive to what little plot there is" and in one case "Practically pornographic."
 
''Cats'' very quickly garnered controversy for being extraordinarily speciest even by the standards of CryrianCryrians in the 1950s. The country's nekomimi population is portrayed as a fifth column of questionable sapience that is vulnerable to foreign manipulation. The film explicitly advocates for strong government controls over the nonhuman population and an expansion of forced sterilization procedures to ensure that the human population of Urth is not "replaced."
 
The film remains the most successful to come out of the otherwise small Cryrian film industry, which has frequently expressed its frustration at being defined by the archaic and virulent piece even in the 21st century. At a conference in 2021, film director Alice Palmstruch reportedly commented that she "Wished that damn thing had gone straight to the ashcan next to Casper [expletive] Ulf." Most theaters and streaming services in Cryria refuse to offer the film today, and the film industry's modern efforts to sever ties between itself and the production have led to criticism of historical whitewashing and demands that the industry take responsibility for its historical role in supporting speciest ideologies in the Isles.
 
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