"About halfway in, I think?" He presses a button on the controller. "Yeah, halfway."

"I like movies." He finishes his seltzer and then invites himself into Yoo-min's lap (lap lap).

Cute kitty. Scritch scritch scritch.

Seungjoo hits play on the movie again.

Cricket purrs softly and attempts to follow a movie picked up halfway through in a language he doesn't speak. Fortunately there is always lots to comment on regardless of the plot. "They cheaped out on that wig."

"Maybe it's not a wig! It could just be that her hair is like that."

"No, it's a wig, look at where it's attached at the temples."

"—huh! You're right. Good eye."

purrrrrrrr

Cricket is sooooo cute and deserves all of the scritches (that he wants).

He wants TUMMY RUBS.

He can have tummy rubs!

yaaaaaaay

"The musical cues are a bit much for the genre."

"Oh?"

"They're so sudden you'd think it was a thriller or a horror film. Whoever composed the incidental music transitions should fall down a flight of stairs. Suddenly. Without walking up to the staircase first."

Seungjoo sporfles then covers his mouth to hide his giggles.

Paw-lick purr purr.

Hyung was right, this cat is funny.

Not everything he says about the movie is negative. "The set dressing in this scene is good. Lived-in instead of just staging furniture and essential props."

"I didn't realise you liked movies so much, you have lots of thought-out opinions."

"Oh, I spend most of my time watching movies. And TV. Haru told me that he used to think that TV was basically just short movies in series but the production environments are really very different and an industry can be good at one and bad at the other quite easily. But there's still a lot I have to see, since there is more all the time and I am five years old."

"I never thought about it like that. I'd love to hear some recs of works you think are particularly high quality if you'd like to give me them sometime."

"Haru thinks when I have more kanji I should start a review blog. But I can send you a list sooner than that."

The rest of the movie passes in the same fashion, at least until Cricket falls asleep on Yoo-min during the credits. He wakes up after about half an hour of catnap, pretends it never happened, preens, and requires thumb-bearing assistance with exiting the house to fly home again because their house doesn't have a cat door.

"Cute kitty."

"That he is."