Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly
- sombre
- measured
- surreal
Sombre, measured, measured drama / arthouse, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Linda is a young woman of Chinese heritage whose mother converted to Christianity after gaining some fame as a badminton player. Her friend Cahyono is tired of anti-Chinese prejudice and now tells people he's from Japan. Together, they try to make sense of their place in the Indonesian society.
Our read · Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly (2008) reads as a sombre, measured, surreal drama · arthouse · chinese-indonesian entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly
What watching it is actually like.
“You want an Indonesian drama on Chinese-Indonesian identity, prejudice and queer experience.”
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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