{"id":14448,"date":"2021-09-08T21:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T01:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14448"},"modified":"2021-08-31T18:14:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T22:14:42","slug":"pig-2021-michael-sarnoski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14448","title":{"rendered":"Pig (2021, Michael Sarnoski)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nic Cage&#8217;s pig gets violently kidnapped and he recruits his truffle buyer Amir (Alex Wolff, the Rodrick-looking guy in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12683\">Hereditary<\/a><\/em>) on a search-and-rescue quest through nearby Portland.  I knew so little about this movie going in because I didn&#8217;t want to discover whatever people are saying you should watch the movie without knowing.  I assume it&#8217;s not the subterranean restaurateur fight club, but the fact that Cage plays a retired superchef who uses his eatery connections and cooking skills to track down the culprit, a sort of <em>Ratatouille<\/em> take on the <em>John Wick<\/em> template.  But hot damn, there&#8217;s also a subterranean restaurateur fight club.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/pig1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Cage is a local legend, a food philosopher-king, who just wants to be left alone with his pig friend in a shack in the woods.  Amir&#8217;s dad Adam Arkin turns out to be a rival mushroom buyer and the pig thief, and the internet believes this to be stunt casting since Arkin once played an &#8220;off the grid, genius gourmet chef&#8221; on <em>Northern Exposure<\/em>.  Sarnoski&#8217;s first feature, has too much handheld camerawork but not terrible.  And the story comes together a little too neatly, that Cage gets answers by recreating a life-pivotal meal he once made for his helper&#8217;s pignapping father.  These are small complaints about a delightful movie.  I would&#8217;ve loved to show it to Katy, if not for the subterranean restaurateur fight club.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/pig2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/pig3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nic Cage&#8217;s pig gets violently kidnapped and he recruits his truffle buyer Amir (Alex Wolff, the Rodrick-looking guy in Hereditary) on a search-and-rescue quest through nearby Portland. I knew so little about this movie going in because I didn&#8217;t want to discover whatever people are saying you should watch the movie without knowing. I assume [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,1365,2911,614,516,2525],"class_list":["post-14448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-cooking","tag-michael-sarnoski","tag-nicolas-cage","tag-pig","tag-portland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14473,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14448\/revisions\/14473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}