A movie that focuses on a man’s love for his pig seems a setup for laughs. Add that the man, Robin (Rob) Feld, is played by long-haired, thickly-bearded Nicolas Cage, and you settle in for an hour and a half of hammy slapstick. In
Pig
(2021), first-time director Michael Sarnoski flirts with comedy and structures the story as a revenge fantasy—with a twist.
Pig
moves toward a Pauline climax, rather than a bloodbath: “If your enemy is hungry, feed him” and “Overcome evil with good.”