DEAD PIGS: An ironic look at the Chinese dream
“Dead Pigs” is the debut film for director Cathy Yan. In a statement, Yan refers to present-day China as a “fascinating, exaggerated, complicated, ridiculous and wonderful setting for my first film.” A contradictory place indeed—governed by the Communist Party, and on paper, a society that is supposed to be moving toward socialism—the Chinese have to…