Cage's pig hunt

Tamia 2022-03-04 08:01:02

The movie "Pig" may be beyond the expectations of many people, or even everyone. After a long and well-behaved foreshadowing, everyone may be looking forward to a bloody revenge story.

However, this film is not about seeking revenge, nor is Nicolas Cage just another copy of John Wick. This Pig Hunt is accompanied by elements such as food, memories, loss and love, making this hunt from forest to city It became a Cage's exploration of his own heart.

This "Pig" is not the "Fast Pig" we expected, but it is good enough that I declare it in advance as the best pig film of the year.

Spoiler alert

Part.1 "Don't touch the pig in Cage's house"

I figured out how to describe the film early on. Before I said don't kill John Wick's dog, don't touch Liam Neeson's daughter, don't steal Tony Ja's elephant (Tom Yum Kung), now, it's probably the turn to stop catching Nicolas Cage's pig.

In fact, in the first third of the film, it seems that it is indeed creating such an atmosphere of "revenge". One day, Cage, who enjoys the joy of people and pigs, was suddenly intruded by outsiders, and the pig was taken away. Then in order to find his pig, Cage and Amir, a young man who bought truffles, embarked on a journey to find pigs.

Although Cage has not returned to the city for more than ten years, it seems that he has been famous before, but it is just that time has changed and he has been forgotten by the times.

At this time, I was already secretly excited. Uncle Cage must use his iconic "Cage Crazy" over the years to show his hidden strength for many years.

Yes, Cage has come up with his housekeeping skills - cooking.

Cage turned out to be a local chef, and the chefs of the internet celebrity restaurants who can only enter and eat here are all apprentices who Cage didn't like to be fired back then.

And the way he influences the enemy who robs pigs is also simple and rude - let me cook a dinner that is so delicious that it will make you cry.

So Cage did not die, and he moved the stubborn and stubborn old guy.

But what about pigs? Pigs are not coming back.

Part.2 "This is actually a food and family movie"

The movie has three subsections, and each subsection is the name of some ingredients or dishes, which gives the film a different kind of interest. "Pastoral Mushroom Pie", "Mom's French Toast and Deconstructed Scallops", "A roasted bird, a bottle of wine, and a piece of salty bread" among which "deconstructed scallops" may not be easy to understand, the one in the film was fired by Cage The chef explained "deconstructed cuisine" as "deconstructing food, making familiar food with unfamiliar taste", this explanation is still not clear enough.

I found a description of "deconstructed cooking" on Google, which is probably: "split a dish into its different ingredients to present a different feeling" (in order to avoid people saying that the chef does not work, this description is followed by Basically, it is necessary to add a sentence "It will not be presented with the completely original ingredients.) The effect is probably like this (strawberry cake)

This way (ghost knows what)

Like this (what the hell 2)

No wonder Cage wanted the chef to get back to his original aspirations.

But food is only a link between family and love. The story of the Amir family and the Cage family in this film is the core of the "family". Amir's parents often quarreled, but they didn't argue only on the day they ate the roasted bird that Cage made back then. Duan's memories of no quarrel are linked to that dish, thus evoking the memories of Amir's father and the good times at that time.

As for Cage, the wife's preparations to celebrate his birthday in the tape made him unforgettable. The dishes they went to eat that night may be too bad for Cage, but this memory, because of the existence of family members , it can be retained permanently. "I found the truffle, not the pig. I want to go back to the pig because I love her."

Part.3 "Cage's wailing, and the blood on his face"

The most shocking moment in the film was when Cage and Amir made a dish that moved his father, but when his father said that the pig had died, Cage cried silently.

Over the years, Cage has had countless bad films, and he has become more and more accustomed to his "irrational and violent" performance. Fortunately, in this film, Cage is not neurotic and crazy, and he does not grin like an American mental patient.

He is full of beards and looks like an ancient well without waves. Until the end of the film, he vented the depression of these days, sitting on the ground and crying.

I don't know if you have noticed that Cage's face has never been cleaned before the end of the film, so after being attacked by the gangsters who didn't talk about martial arts and being beaten by the people in the underground boxing stadium, Cage carried this way all the time. bloodstains.

It reminded me of Jack Nicholson's smashed nose in Chinatown, a lasting scar that became a hallmark of the protagonist, and a sort of testament to the setbacks and failures of their perseverance.

The more he insisted, the more conspicuous the bloodstain became. Everyone looked at him and asked him if he needed medical assistance. Cage even finished the dinner with the bloodstain. And it wasn't until he finally released that he washed the blood away, the pigs are dead, the people are dead, they may or may not live in your heart, but you know, you still love them.

Part.4 "Cage's Sunset Boulevard and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"

When Cage was said by his old friend Edgar, "I remember that your name was still a little heavy, but now, it is worthless", I suddenly thought of the book "Heroic The End" book, and Norma, the silent-movie actor in "Sunset Boulevard" who desperately tries to regain her former glory.

Some parts of this film are actually some kind of self-deprecation of Cage. He has been out of the mainstream film circle for too long. What was Cage's last big non-dubbed film? It was "Soul Chariot 2" ten years ago, and these years, it is not that Cage has not made a slightly better movie, but these movies are too far away from the mainstream audience.

So every time Cage releases a new film, we have to ask, "Is Cage's debt paid off? Can you turn over?"

But if there is no explosive good movie, Cage will probably only return to the unoccupied cabin after a short-lived like in the movie.

Part.5 "Only Cheese and Bacon Can Live Up to Your Life"

Let's get back to food.

Although Cage's cooking skills have been deified in the film, compared to the flashy dishes, the two dishes at the beginning and the end of Cage perfectly demonstrate his cooking philosophy.

Start: Flour Carrots Mushrooms, Big Pie

Ending: Roasted Bird Potatoes with Soup, Great Satisfaction.

Yes, the concept of creation is still the details of food. The so-called craftsman spirit, handmade, strict selection and other entries can not equal the taste and satiety that makes people eat.

I don't know how Cage's roasted bird tastes, but I thought of the roasted squab that I ate at a restaurant in Guangzhou (do not write the name of the store to avoid advertising). After the entrance, the meat is like soup with soup, and the taste is amazing.

I also tried truffles in a restaurant in France. That restaurant was highly recommended on tripadvisor. (I suddenly turned to the photo of a dish I ate at that time. Could this be deconstructed cuisine?)

When I was watching the movie, I was just thinking, what's the point of working so hard to catch pigs and dig truffles with such delicious food as roast pigeons that can be raised at will?

Isn't it delicious to eat pork directly?

In the middle of the night, watching people eat and drink spicy food, I was hungry, so I stopped writing and ate ice cream on the hour. (Don't buy Zhong Xuegao, it is so expensive that I feel bad)

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Extended Reading
  • Mason 2022-03-28 09:01:13

    lose my love forever

  • Roscoe 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    Don't know what the bullshit is, a chef acting like a killer, a vendor acting like a gangster, and then two poor people who lost their wives in the end? ?

Pig quotes

  • Rob: What happened to the persimmon tree?

    Bryce: What's a persimmon?

    Rob: It's a uh.. it's an orange fruit looks kind of like tomato.

    Rob: You can't eat it if it's not ripe it's awful

    Rob: But if you give it time, it gets rid of these things called tannins and then they are very good.

    Bryce: I don't think we have a persimmon tree

    Rob: No? That's okay

    Bryce: Did it die?

  • Rob: Derek why do you care about these people? They don't care about you, none of them.

    Rob: They don't even know you because you haven't shown them.

    Rob: Everyday you wake up and there'll be less of you you live your life for them and they don't even see you.

    Rob: You don't even see yourself. We don't get a lot of things to really care about.