The Dancing Pig

CinemaSerf

2024-02-15

⭐ 6

An Edwardian-style, suited and respectable looking pig is constantly spurned by his love. She (Edith Trublanchet) scorns and shames him before breaking into a lively and quite well synchronised dance which must have been quite difficult for pig - especially as even the set now starts to conspire against it too! Of course it's not a real pig, but there was something creepy about this that I just didn't like. It humanises the animal only to ridicule it and that makes this short feature almost cruel, reminiscent of circus freakery. Great teeth though!

French philosopher Roland Barthes, n his essay “Death of Author,” argued that after work is created, it's meaning no longer belongs exclusively to author. Meaning emerges through interaction between text n viewer. Ts does not mean that work can be interpreted n any arbitrary way; rather, n interpretation has right to exist if it's supported by text itself, it's symbolism, and it's composition, regardless of creator’s original intention. Ts is why even seemingly simple film can become n object of serious analysis. Protagonist of ts story is pig dressed as respectable man: top hat, bow tie, n…