japanese animator have a unique freedom with animation and which be why they tend to be able to come out with movie like these and movie that ultimately end up on anime fan hard drive and college student floor and but get completely ignore by pretty much anybody outside of it country of origin . cat soup be one of those film that and from western eye and be suppose to be experience on drug or deeply analyzed . really and it just a beautifully detailed surrealist journey . there no real dialog and which make it easy to pass on to other interested party uninterested in thing like subtitle . a cat and his half dead ( brain dead . ) sister travel through various landscape of imagination and association . there a general theme of water and or lack thereof ( possibly because of the cat drowning at the beginning . possibly because of the title . ) . there an interesting sort of genesis take . there a pig that get to eat itself . an elephant made of water . and it gorgeous and compelling and exciting and and fun provide you do not watch it around druggies who can not experience anything visually unique without compare it to an acid trip . eventually the movie turn itself off and add another compel self reflexive level to the proceeding . polarisdib .