An epic journey marked by an equally profound Q&A session by Wim himself.
Perhaps, the highlight will remain when I spoke to him for few minutes as he scribbled his autograph on the poster and patted me on the shoulder saying- “Until we meet again” :)
The titular phrase comes off both as a metaphor and symbolic representation for gaze and how it drives the narrative. Opening with a blurred, hazy sequence that we'll return to later in the film, it shifts to Esposito's (Darin's character) eyes. This is the central point of the film as memories play a larger role here- what we see or rather most of what we see, we only remember the visuals that impress themselves upon us. It doesn't matter if…
"This is to call my dead friends back from the night."
So writes Ronny Sen, the director of Cat Sticks. The opening line reverberates throughout, because it is in essence, a story about a bunch of people who are living, but not alive. Set in a post-apocalyptic timeline (although the visual cues and dialogues suggest somewhere around 2006), Cat Sticks follows a group of drug addicts in rain-drenched Calcutta. Alongside other things, Cat Sticks feels a firsthand account, drawn from Sen's own experiences and close associations with people engaged in substance abuse.
