The category and the film exist in mutual dependence: the category needs the film to populate it, and the film needs the category to be found, sorted, and recommended at all. Streaming platforms have turned this into an industry, slicing cinema into ever-finer genres until "Quirky Mind-Bending Foreign Dramas" becomes a place you can actually live. Somewhere in that taxonomy, the film stops being a thing you watch and becomes a thing you browse.