{"id":58146,"date":"2022-07-15T14:05:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T08:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/pig-2022-review-nicolas-cage-shows-that-he-is-much-more-than-a-meme-in-an-overwhelming-film-about-pain-grief-and-truffle-pigs\/"},"modified":"2022-07-30T16:31:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T11:01:29","slug":"pig-2022-review-nicolas-cage-shows-that-he-is-much-more-than-a-meme-in-an-overwhelming-film-about-pain-grief-and-truffle-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/pig-2022-review-nicolas-cage-shows-that-he-is-much-more-than-a-meme-in-an-overwhelming-film-about-pain-grief-and-truffle-pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Pig&#8217; (2022), review: Nicolas Cage shows that he is much more than a meme in an overwhelming film about pain, grief and truffle pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nicolas Cage is doomed to live his working life with <strong>the joke of memes always playing in the background<\/strong>.  No matter what movies he makes or the illusion he puts into them, there will always be people who go too far with the joke and don&#8217;t know how to see that Cage is much more than the actor in the gifs or an icon on the Internet of the 21st century. <strong>&#8216;Pig&#8217; is the demonstration that it is capable of elevating a film <\/strong>that many will see wanting to joke and will leave with tears in their eyes.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset article-asset-normal article-asset-center\">\n<div class=\"desvio-container\">\n<div class=\"desvio\">\n<div class=\"desvio-figure js-desvio-figure\">\n<p>     <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>The anti-John Wick<\/h2>\n<p>We are increasingly used to films that explode and tell everything there is to know in the first ten minutes and then narrate the consequences of that prologue: &#8216;Pig&#8217; seems to use this resource (someone has stolen the truffle pig from a man who lives isolated in the bush) but <strong>is the excuse to unroll the story of its protagonists <\/strong>slowly but surely: until the final minutes it is not revealed <strong>all that lies behind the silences<\/strong>.  And it is inevitable not to end up touched.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --> <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Pig&#8217; could be a fix for &#8216;John Wick&#8217; for having used ultraviolence as revenge, and in fact he doesn&#8217;t disdain it at all, but <strong>prefers to show all the layers of someone&#8217;s personality as fascinating as reclusive<\/strong>.  Rob has lived in different worlds and knows the healing power of words and food, <strong>of love as the only possible plaster for an unspeakable pain<\/strong> that does not stop feeling: it is complex, difficult to deal with and magnetic during every minute that it appears on the screen.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset-image article-asset-normal article-asset-center\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<div class=\"base-wrapper-image\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\">\n                 <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sf-lazy centro_sinmarco\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/63d5a5\/pig-nic-cage\/450_1000.webp?w=788&#038;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/63d5a5\/pig-nic-cage\/650_1200.webp 681w,https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/63d5a5\/pig-nic-cage\/1024_2000.webp 1024w, https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/63d5a5\/pig-nic-cage\/1366_2000.webp 1366w,\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/63d5a5\/pig-nic-cage\/450_1000.webp?w=788&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pig Nic Cage\" onerror=\"this.data-sf-src=\" https:=\"\" false=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n  <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pig Nic Cage\" class=\"centro_sinmarco\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/63d5a5\/pig-nic-cage\/450_1000.webp?w=788&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It is true that, as a companion, Amir goes much further than anyone would go for good truffles, but his presence is necessary so that the plot does not remain deadlocked. <strong>&#8216;Pig&#8217; forces several leaps of faith<\/strong>, but in pursuit of the character study he does, it is not difficult to get carried away.  Especially when <strong>the core of the film is in what does not count<\/strong>, in symbolism: no one in the film is capable of letting go of a loved one, and grief grows until it dominates each of their actions.  Summarizing it in &#8220;Haha, Nicolas Cage is looking for a pig&#8221; is a reductio ad absurdum too typical of these times.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 4 --><\/p>\n<h2>Give me my truffle pig<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Nicolas Cage signs one of his best roles <\/strong>in this movie: he&#8217;s an actor who always gives one hundred percent in each character, even if it&#8217;s for a straight-to-DVD snafu, but in &#8216;Pig&#8217; you can see that, apart from the grimaces and exaggerated expressions, he can give free rein to a performance in which his sobriety stands out, always containing (by the hair) the nerve.  Memes and jokes aside, the actor embroiders a role in which he demonstrates what he has always been capable of doing in <strong>an impressive interpretative maturity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 5 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset-image article-asset-normal article-asset-center\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<div class=\"base-wrapper-image\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\">\n                 <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sf-lazy centro_sinmarco\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/5e49ab\/pig\/450_1000.webp?w=788&#038;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/5e49ab\/pig\/650_1200.webp 681w,https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/5e49ab\/pig\/1024_2000.webp 1024w, https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/5e49ab\/pig\/1366_2000.webp 1366w,\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/5e49ab\/pig\/450_1000.webp?w=788&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pig\" onerror=\"this.data-sf-src=\" https:=\"\" false=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n  <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pig\" class=\"centro_sinmarco\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/5e49ab\/pig\/450_1000.webp?w=788&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8216;Pig&#8217; is not a tasteful dish for everyone. <strong>It&#8217;s a slow movie <\/strong>more focused on profiling an unpleasant character than narrating a detective work in search of the pig in question.  And that makes it a fabulous work: <strong>leave aside the fireworks and the common places <\/strong>to give details in just a couple of restrained sentences (Amir not entering a room in his father&#8217;s house, the cook of the luxury chef receiving the most honest criticism of his life), trusting in the viewer&#8217;s emotional intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 6 --><\/p>\n<p>In the end, &#8216;Pig&#8217; is a film in which its festive starting point collides with <strong>a reflection on sadness, grief, mourning <\/strong>and how the best moments can become painful memories.  And how sometimes <strong>you can only find happiness in a few little things <\/strong>imperceptible to others.  Come on, have a party.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 7 --><\/p>\n<h2>cagetatouille<\/h2>\n<p>We haven&#8217;t seen such an evocative speech since &#8216;Ratatouille&#8217; <strong>regarding food and the memory neurons it activates<\/strong>.  But what in the Pixar film was a celebration of life through eating here is quite the opposite: showing the other side of the coin is vital in <strong>a work that leaves no hostages along the way<\/strong>.  As cynical as one may be, &#8216;Pig&#8217; will eventually strike a chord with you.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 8 --><\/p>\n<p>The debut of Michael Sarnoski (who is already preparing a spin-off of &#8216;A Quiet Place&#8217;) <strong>live in the details<\/strong>in the tapes you can&#8217;t finish listening to, in the trees you haven&#8217;t cut down, in the rooms you don&#8217;t want to go into, in the food you once tasted. <strong>It is a unique experience, a painful thesis and a rare bird on the current billboard<\/strong>.  Nicolas Cage could not have chosen a better work to demonstrate that he returns to the front line.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 9 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset article-asset-normal article-asset-center\">\n<div class=\"desvio-container\">\n<div class=\"desvio\">\n<div class=\"desvio-figure js-desvio-figure\">\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The most anticipated movies and the best premieres of 2022\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/a717c0\/peliculas-mas-esperadas-2022\/375_142.webp?w=788&#038;ssl=1\" onerror=\"this.src=\" https:=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Pig&#8217; asks you for patience, but it rewards you <\/strong>with a work full of chiaroscuros, nuances, sadness and love despite everything.  Nicolas Cage is absolutely superb accompanying a script that is not willing to let you leave the room <strong>without something inside having been removed<\/strong>.  And all this looking for a truffle pig.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 10 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicolas Cage is doomed to live his working life with the joke of memes always playing in the background. 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