Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly

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09/07/2011 Director Edwin has real guts making something like this, but the 'I Just Called to Say I Love You' heavy-rotation is just too 'Chungking Expressy' in my humble opinion. See more 08/25/2009 Before you watch this movie, check out http://www.babibutafilm.com/blindpigwhowantstofly.html. This is one of the main points to hold against this movie: it seems the story is so fragmented, the story line is difficult to understand even if you know a bit about the position of ethnic Chinese Indonesians. That position and their identity is subject of this movie. The movie follows a group of lower to average income Chinese and the people they interact with in Surabaya, without much of a story that moves forward. At times haunting, at times wacked, with actors of different quality and excellent camera work, this is an interesting movie by a talented young film maker. This movie won the FIPRESCI-award. You may want to check out why at http://www.fipresci.org/festivals/archive/2009/rotterdam/blind_pig_dlinssen.htm See more 08/08/2009 i liked edwin's short films but this one is beyond my expectation... disjointed parts and incoherent subplots. See more 04/10/2009 a subtle, unusual yet confronting exploration of discrimination endured by indonesia's ethnic chinese - and the search for, and loss of, identity. various short-scene fragments form the overall jigsaw, piece by piece. very thought-provoking. See more 04/05/2009 Primer film de EDWIN, narra cuantiosas situaciones de chinos viviendo en su Indonesia natal, plantea la incomunicación y la falta de integración social, incluído el cerdo a que hace mención el título del film, ciego, atado a un palo de madera, queriendo volar. El film cuenta con una narrativa no lineal. Muchos personajes que mantienen muy vagas conexiones a lo largo del relato, inclusive alguna de ellas meramente perturbadoras, con un tinte de pretención. A todo ésto, nos encontramos con un tema musical recurrente, decisión que en muchos films ha sido de gran aceptación y funcionalidad como por ejemplo en obras de WONG KAR WAI y su CHUNGKING EXPRESS. Aquí, "I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU" de STEVIE WONDER es empleada hasta el hartazgo, de tal manera que si en algun momento hemos tenido un cierta admiración por el tema, luego de BLIND PIG..., terminaremos odiándolo. 2/10 See more 03/05/2009 little bit messy... weird, but i like it. i don't know why... See more Read all reviews

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