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Nicholas Cage Film PIG At 97% On Rotten Tomatoes – See The NEON Film Playing Now

NEON’s latest movie PIG stars Oscar-Winner Nicolas Cage (LEAVING LAS VEGAS, THE CROODS, MANDY, COLOR OUT OF SPACE and the voice of Spider Noir in the Academy Award winning Best Animated Feature “Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse”) and Alex Wolff (OLD, HEREDITARY, JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVEL). It is the story of a truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness and who must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.

PIG, which opened on July 16, presently sits at a solid 97% on Rotten Tomatoes and the reviews for Cage have been glowing. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pig_2021

Richard Roeper (Chicago Sun-Times) says “The unpredictable Cage delivers some of his best work in years.”

Kristy Puchko (Pajiba) “Pig is not only a mesmerizing while meditative drama about love and loss. It is also a powerful reminder that Cage is one of the most talented, most captivating movie stars of our time.”

David Sims (The Atlantic) “In Pig, Cage is the mournful center of a clever story about how commercialism rots the purity of artistic expression. It’s some of his best, most nuanced work in years.”

Ty Burr (Boston Globe) “”Pig” is a thoughtful, well-made movie for an audience primed for junk: It’s pearls before swine.”

Anne Brodie (What She Said) “Cage’s unshowy, quiet and visceral presence dominates every frame. Rob’s pain and will and history elevate him to a higher plane.”

Buy tickets here: https://www.fandango.com/pig-2021-224971/movie-overview

Director Michael Sarnoski edited and produced the Netflix-acquired documentary, The Testimony, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Academy Awards in the best documentary short category.

PIG is his writing and directorial debut. Sarnoski says of his film, “Truffle hunters will camp out on their porches at night, shotgun in hand, to fend off competing hunters trying to steal their valuable pigs and dogs. What? That was one of those facts that felt otherworldly yet immediately relatable to me, and that’s where PIG started. It got me imagining what sort of person would be so attached to their truffle pig that this would be a quest worth following. Then came the image of this tattered old man, alone in the woods with only his pig. Where did he come from? Then his world and history started to unfold around him, and PIG began to take shape.”

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PIG – SLIFF Review

“Pig” can be defined in many ways. A common farm animal, a person inclined to eat too much, a derogatory slang toward law enforcement, or a fitting short hand for a selfish, sexist man who hates every bone in a woman’s body. None of these truly fit within the confines of the film PIG, which can lead an audience astray. The title is most likely derived from the ramblings of the main character in reflection on his own past behavior, but this plays only a supplementary role in this complex science-fiction story of one man’s odyssey to regain his own mind.

Written and directed by Henry Barrial, PIG is as much a psychological thriller as it is science-fiction. This surely has its roots in Barrial’s education in psychology, which comes through in the script. Rudolph Martin plays the nameless main character, who wakes up in the middle of the desert with his hands bound behind his back and a black hood on his head. It’s not looking like a good day ahead. On the brink of death by dehydration, or worse, he passes out.

Flash forward a bit and our mystery man awakes in the home of a woman living alone in the desert. This woman found the man and has cared for him while unconscious. It is at this moment the man realizes he is suffering from a terrible case of amnesia, unaware of who he is or how he has come to be in this bizarre situation. What’s abundantly clear to the audience, however, is that some is not right and bad things are sure to come. The Man, whose only lead in a slip of scrap paper reading “Manny Elder,” begins an arduous struggle to regain some sense of self, to recover his memory, but leads him deeper into the rabbit hole (so to speak) than he ever imagined.

Rudolph Martin is not just convincing as the amnesiac man, but displays a range of tools in his acting utility belt that make the character that much more engaging. PIG can be classified as fitting the same general category science-fiction film as TOTAL RECALL or MINORITY REPORT, but without the action. On his journey, The Man encounters Manny Elder, played by Keith Diamond, a familiar face from several popular television series, and others who lead The Man to slowly piece the puzzle together.

PIG is a film that too easily can be spoiled, but what I can tell you is that nothing is what it seems, including The Man himself. PIG is not a traditionally structured film, presenting the story in a non-linear fashion that dissects time and shuffles the pieces into a complex puzzle, different but in a similar manner as Christopher Nolan’s MEMENTO. PIG not only stands up to multiple viewings, but actually demands a second viewing to capture the story in it’s entirety. I’m not suggesting its an impossibly complicated story to comprehend, but simply that PIG tells a story in such a fresh and entertaining fashion that you’ll want to see it a second time.

Showtimes
Sunday, November 13th at 1:30pm – Tivoli Theatre