Being an avid
Cillian Murphy fan, I happened upon Disco Pigs whilst scrolling through his IMDb profile. I
read the vague description: 'A twisted
rite of passage.' Naturally, I was
interested, and placed it on my Watchlist. There it stayed for I don't know how
many months, until I finally decided to watch it today. And oh my. This film
is disastrous, insane and pure pure brilliance.
The codependent relationship
shared between 'Pig' (Murphy) and 'Runt' (Elaine Cassidy) creates this
mind-blowing psychological trap for which neither can escape. The director's
interpretation of the play is truly magnificent. The mirrored movements allow
the actors to act as one, and to make it ever easier for the audience to
recognise when the relationship inevitably crumbles apart. You get to see real
relationship problems and how a pair so attached deals with it. And let me tell
you, not well at all. This film allows you to think about people, allows you to
be so unsure of your own opinion that you end up just giving up and staying by
Pig's side no matter what he did. It emotionally confuses you, and I for one
was in tears by the end of it. The brilliance of the writing cannot go
unpraised, as the use of two protagonists makes this film even better. We get
to see both sides of the relationship from the good to the bad and just
plain psycho. If this situation were to happen in real life, they'd
be called 'weird' or 'attention seekers'. Yet the brilliance of this film is
that you see it how the characters do. They cannot possibly be apart, yet there
is a time when one realises they have to be. The truly detrimental effects of
this make this film unexpected. Amazing. Cassidy and Murphy do the roles justice,
portraying the characters in complex and memorable ways. Murphy's monologue
about his desires for Runt is one to look out for, as I'm sure it would
transfix anyone watching.
Directed
by Kristin Sheridan, this Irish play serves as something so emotional that it
deserves to be performed worldwide. This has the ability to touch the hearts of
many, yet also hit the public with a sense of reality. Not all relationships
are fairy-tale, movie romances. I gave this film an 8/10
on IMDb and I recommend it to anyone who likes
dark, psychological films.
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