Quentin Tarantino Calls This Nic Cage Drama With 97% on RT 'One of the Best of the Last Five Years'
And he is absolutely right.
Quentin Tarantino loves to share his opinions about different movies. This time the legendary director talked about his impressions while watching Michael Sarnoski's Pig.
He thinks the movie is one of the best of the last five years. Tarantino commented:
"I'm watching some Nic Cage stuff, and the one that blew me away was that movie he did, Pig. That's one of the best of the last five years. That's one of the best movies I've seen in the last five years."
What Is Pig About?
The hermit Rob has been living in a house in the middle of the forest for over fifteen years. It seems that he doesn't need anyone except his faithful friend and colleague – the truffle pig, with whose help Rob makes a living.
Together they search for mushrooms all day long and sell them to Amir, the dealer, on Thursdays. It seems that such a modest life suits him perfectly.
But one day something terrible happens: a group of unknown people attacks Rob and steals the pig. Now the man will have to leave his comfort zone and start a war for his last friend.
Pig Is Not Your Typical Revenge Thriller
After reading the synopsis, you might get the misleading impression that Pig is a classic revenge thriller in the spirit of Mandy. Only instead of a woman killed by cultists, there is a cute pig.
However, despite all the attributes of a mediocre thriller, Pig turns out to be a quiet, restrained indie drama.
Where it would be possible to throw wild details at the viewer, the movie prefers to remain silent, where in any movie about revenge there would be a bloody vendetta, this project becomes the main humanistic hymn to love and forgiveness.
And all this, strangely enough, is still bizarre, sometimes even absurd – like almost every movie Cage has made in the last decade. Pig is touching, but not sugary-sweet; it goes to extremes, but it is not vulgar. It is simply real and elusively alive.
Pig Is Nicolas Cage's Most Personal Movie
We've become accustomed to seeing a screaming, angry, crazy Nicolas Cage on screen, but Pig turns the familiar image of the actor inside out, turning him into a person who is not comical, but tragic.
Cage, perhaps without realizing it, admits to the audience his trauma: like the character, he fled the big industry for the deep wilderness of independent cinema to be true to himself, but instantly turned into a repulsive loner.
Pig is a hymn not only to true artistic geniuses, but also to madmen who refuse to follow the crowd.
Source: Video Archives Podcast