I Am a Fat Cat (Short)
A.R. Brook Lynn’s “I Am a Fat Cat” begins with a scene set in 1985 about a drug dealer being arrested at the New York docks, with his young daughter, Annie, looking on. Turn to the present day, and we see Annie as a young woman as she empties the money from a wallet she has stolen. We think the film is going to follow Annie (played by A.R. Brook Lynn, who wrote and directed the film), but instead, it turns into a little series of vignettes where the players all have one place in common- Fat Cats, a Greenwich Village club with all manner of clientele. Among those followed are Dee (Shana Solomon), a Brooklyn lesbian who knows how to get in to the club without paying the cover, and is able to seduce above her station; Annie, who has been warned not to pickpocket the customers in the club; and Evgenya (Tatiana Grey), a “masseuse” whom we have seen deal with a client who is suspicious of her. The club is the only thing connecting these three, although the description of the film says, “These are the fat cats, lost people dreaming big about the wrong things.” The story is a bit too thin to really see that being the case, but the characters are interesting, and the atmosphere is compelling. You only wish there was something stronger at the center to connect everything together in a wholly entertaining way.
