Paul Hilmo

I feel like I need psychotherapy after watching this movie. I didn't just feel like I was witnessing a self-destructive personality, but dragged down with him for the experience. Despite the standard length, the film feels twice as long as it actually is. I will never watch this movie again, ever. With that said, the performances of the actors is phenomenal, albeit this does not save the film in my opinion.

Pig cleverly uses the circumstances of a current tragedy to roughly manifest a set of past tragedies in the life of a once celebrated chef and convincingly demonstrate him as a man of unexpected depth and passion. The movie initially presents the viewer with a country hermit, apparently lacking in any social graces, living with his truffle pig in the forests of western Oregon. This initial personality is then increasing flavored with notes of irrationality and emotionality, only to slowly remove the blindfolds with tidbits of past tragedy that force you to engage with this filthy hermit in a way that disarm your ability to deny him anything but his full human dignity. In the end, just as you think he will lose all control and inflict violence against his enemy, he surprises everyone with an effort to communicate with him at such depths of compassion and human understanding that it must be seen to be believed. This is a story that transforms the audience rather than the main character.