Disco Pigs (2001)

This is one of those films that as you watch through it, you find yourself expecting a lot. It set's up a really powerful friendship, that has strong love connections between the two.The characters are strong, they have strange personalities that compliment each other. You do begin to feel the intense need for each other between the two, but for me that is when show it has no other real aspects of enjoyment.For me it felt like the emotion got to a level very fast in the film, the build up in this sense was very intense. The problem was i found that the story never really kept up with this. The characters grew, but without any real reason.I'd also like to pick up on pig's accent, which was a little confusing at time. I know Cillian Murphy is Irish, but honestly what was happening with the accent? he sounded Jamaican on numerous occasions. I guess it's just a regional accent thing.Finally, I have to comment on the end ending. What the hell was that? It made absolutely no sense whatsoever. Maybe i had drifted off at points in the film or something, but really, from what i saw it was an attempt at a powerful upsetting ending, but in my opinion it had no real substance.

I guess like Jessica Lynch, Kirsten Sheridan figured she could ride daddy's coat tails to the status of instant-auteur. Well...not in my book. I'd be shocked if this massive dud gets any attention whatsoever, aside from the usual "we love anything that sucks" crowd of nose-in-the-air art-house frequenting naval-gazing clods, who wouldn't know quality cinema if it bit them on the arse. Runt and Pig. Pig and Runt. I love you Pig. Happy birthday Runt. Good God.The actors themselves do what they can with the crappy material, and are both fairly talented. But even GREATt actors couldn't come close to saving this terribly dull (and amateurishly lensed) bore-o-rama from it's current status...a film that gets rented maybe once a year from the maybe 10 video stores that actually have it, and only because the title itself would lead one to believe this film would have something going for it...like a small amount of humor amidst the meandering, pretentious, and boring goings on. No such luck. Do yourself a favor and skip it.

Where do I begin? Disco Pigs is very typical to many Irish films-especially art films-meaning it is raw. I thought this movie was the most amazing Film I have ever seen in my life- Casting wise-Cillian Murphy is my most favourite actor and for very good reason, Pig is not an easy character to become because he is obsessive, dangerous, and still has the innocence of a child-the language and world Pig and Runt invent is poetic with twisted little games that they invent- You could think of this movie being "a more twisted version of romeo and juliet"- so these two soul mates were born only minuets apart, ignoring the world around them they vowed to always keep things the way they were, only them two, Sinead and Darren, Runt and Pig, King and Queen. Them staying in this world only made for them two-all changed days before their 17th birthday-Pig's eyes are being opened on seeing Runt in more of a romantic way-but his obsessiveness gets the best of him-ending in the most heartbreaking sacrifices i have ever seen.

I absolutely adored this film it just really got to me, I thought it was beautiful and tragic.My sister saw it and told me I'd love,we have similar tastes, so we watched when I went to stay with her.I know it's sad but I always really root for everything to be alright I really care about the characters ,I want to look after them.It's awful because Pig's not in love with Runt, he's in love with his feelings for her sorry I'm not very good at explaining things but I know what I meen.For some reason this film really spoke to me, I've never had that close a relationship or even a moderatly close relationship with anyone, perhaps that why it meant something