Is it sexual assault if a young woman says no but says yes? The short story “Cat Person” sparked a heated debate. Six years later, the bland film adaptation ends this discussion.
It could be the perfect #metoo puzzle. College student Margot (Emilia Jones) works in an arthouse cinema alongside her studies and meets Robert (Nicholas Braun), a – somewhat, not problematically – older man. They text for a few days, flirt a bit and go on a date. They have sex, even though Margot doesn’t really feel like it anymore. She doesn’t want to, but goes along with it. Why?
After her best friend intervenes, Margot dares to break up with Robert shortly afterwards. In the following weeks he wrote again and again. Margot wants to forget him. One night at a bar, she pretends not to see him. The chat then escalates. Does she have someone else? Is she sleeping with him right now? “Whore!” writes Robert.
Kristen Roupenians published in the “New Yorker”. Short story about an unattractive man meeting a young, attractive woman went viral in 2017. The $12 million film adaptation is now in theaters.