I can't think of another recent film that has treated the death of an animal with as much casual cruelty as "Murder of a Cat." Don't get me wrong: while I love cats dearly, the operative word in that sentence is "casual" since "Murder of a Cat," a blackly-comic murder-mystery,
is supposed to be cruel. This may sound odd, but the film's best gags
and plot twists would consequently be much improved if director Gillian
Greene, and co-writers Christian Magalhaes and Robert Snow took greater
pains to mock their unreliable lead protagonist, a lonely bachelor who
vows to catch his cat's killer. Viewers are supposed to pity and/or