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Normally I don't really mind it when a director imitates the style of another director. If you liked the original, why complain about a copy? However, Mani Haghini's 2018 film "The Pig" is highly derivative of the Cohen Brother's satires, in a way that really makes you appreciate the craft of the brothers as filmmakers. Mani seems to have watched "The Big Lebowski" 40 times, then set out to make a self-indulgent movie about being a film director in Iran. The other filmmaker make Mani seems to have been cribbing notes from is Woody Allen, in that both men often insist on starring and directing themselves in their own movies. Much as with Allen, Mani is a wildly unattractive man, who, when writing himself into his own fictional world has decided that a number of beautiful women are obsessed with him. His former leading lady, and mistress stops an movie scene she's starring in just because he's in the audience watching it be filmed. He even picks up a young, attractive stocker, who follows him around secretly filming him. Mani seems to think he has the sexual charisma of the rock stars that adorn the tacky graphic t-shirts he wears throughout the film. Having said all this, Haghini does have some skill as a visual stylist. It's just unfortunate that for every striking image that Haghini conjures up, they get buried in all the elements of the film that aren't working, most notably the choppy editing. In the end I think this is a film that is worth skipping.

While the script is amazing, the mighty acting of Hassan Majouni as the leading role is shining in almost every moment of the movie. And you barely see such good performance from Siamak Ansari (Hope he takes it as a compliment!) If you are familiar with post-revolution Iran's history, you may be able to relate the scenario with some infamous events.

Iran's cinema needs more blockbusters like this. After ''A Dragon Arrives", Mani Haghighi did not disappoint and you could obviously see the evolution in his work, the Cinematography and a very vibrant and unique color palette is the most underrated thing about the movie which is amazing, the next thing is his motive to make it a good ''dark comedy'' which he could do brilliantly and it all connected.

Overall, it was very enjoyable.

Hey, just want to note my idea here, This movie refers to an important effect, about viral videos, tweeter #, ... in few words, "the people whom are not famous in real life, but they have too many people as viewers at social networks". These people sometimes make troubles, show small events like disasters, it is really very nice idea for screenplay. Vow awesome if comedy... Like few other films which made before, for example "the circle 2017" but it was not comedy... But Dear mani, i hope you success in your life, in writing, in directing. You have very good movies, which i was interested. Here it was not good, in cinema, viewers hardly sit and watch. We laughed. We screamed. But there is something in our mind which says "it is bad". Sorry but it is what i think. We are real people, we need to believe the screenplay, we need to live with the roles, we are viewers, unfortunately we failed. There were very good actors/actresses. But final result is not good. Best wishes...

Storyline was attractive ,and i can't stop movie till end.I enjoy it and i think most of the people would enjoy this movie. . It's too hard for Iranian movies to become popular unless they has been created by Asqhar Farhady 😕.So I wanna too use this opportunity and advertise them.Iran's cinema is not strong ,but we can find more than three good movie from each year,so watch Iranian movie too and describe them with some normal Hollywood movies in same genre and same year .😐