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Pig 2021
An existentialist deconstruction of John Wick, an anti-revenge movie that plays into our expectations of the genre to subvert them, a deeply unsatisfying movie in conventional terms that is rewarding in its profoundly authentic humanism. There are certain things we've been conditioned to expect, and when a movie's premise is that Nicolas Cage's pig gets stolen and he goes on a quest to retrieve it, a lot of those expectations are triggered. Debut director Michael Sarnoski plays into our anticipation…
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