He feels true, but he doesn’t feel real.Īs the duo travel through the city, Amir discovers that Rob’s full name - Robin Feld - can still open lots of doors. And Cage - still one of our bravest actors - plays Rob with a ghostly rigidity that regularly slips from coiled aggression to stone-faced deadpan. He doesn’t even wash the blood off his face after he’s pummeled in a late-night beatdown, and he’s already covered in scars from the initial, quite violent theft of his pig. For starters, the grizzled, grimy Rob is increasingly wounded and covered in blood as the evening proceeds. Leaving aside the slightly surreal notion that all this hullaballoo is happening over a truffle pig, Sarnoski drops a number of visual hints as to the metaphorical nature of this quest. That sounds like a goofy idea for a story, but as played out onscreen, it’s even goofier. The distraught, vengeful Rob calls up Amir, and the two head into the city on a journey that takes them to posh restaurants and underground fight clubs in their efforts to locate Apple. Truffles are big business in the growing high-end Portland restaurant scene, and a well-trained truffle pig is obviously very valuable. One night, a couple of intruders beat Rob up and steal Apple. Nicolas Cage plays a grizzled, mournful hermit named Rob who lives in the woods of the Pacific Northwest and spends his days hunting truffles with his pig, Apple, and then trading them to big-city buyer Amir (Alex Wolff). It’s not about the thing it’s about, except that it ultimately is totally about the thing it’s about. As it proceeds, it expands its vision and compassion, even as it de-escalates the tension. Pig (now in theaters via Neon Releasing) is in no way that kind of movie. But those expecting a sillier variation on John Wick or Taken or even previous idiosyncratic Nicolas Cage outings like Mandy may be in for some disappointment. After its opening 20 or so minutes, you could easily mistake it for a revenge movie, or at least some kind of hillbilly-noir quest narrative. More Zen fable than genre picture, Michael Sarnoski’s Pig delights in defying expectations.
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