11:6 - 8 that touching the
skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?
A bumbling pig farmer, a feisty salon owner, a sensitive busboy, an expat architect and a disenchanted rich girl converge and collide as
thousands of dead pigs float down the river towards a rapidly - modernizing Shanghai, China.
Yan is an up - and - coming filmmaker whose feature directorial debut «Dead Pigs» — about «A bumbling pig farmer, a feisty salon owner, a sensitive busboy, an expat architect and a disenchanted rich girl converge and collide as thousands
of dead pigs float down the river towards a rapidly - modernizing Shanghai» — earned strong reviews and won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting at Sundance.
Eh, that «research» is based on looking at what happens to the
spines of dead pig corpses, and was broadly applied to humans.
One day, you're trying to find a way to bring people out of a coma, and the next, you're jamming a long needle into the
brain of a dead pig to inject it with a miracle formula before sending surges of electricity through the carcass.
From the film's very first shot — video
footage of a dead pig being given high - voltage doses of electricity — we know that these crazy kids are about to start bringing things back to life.
While working as a crime journalist I crafted several novels that were, in the words of my agent, «as dark as the
inside of a dead pig.»
Overcrowding in these facilities has been blamed for pollution and the spread of disease, as well as for the recent dumping of thousands
of dead pigs into a river flowing into Shanghai.
Note also that, while the word «abomination» has been used with reference to hom ose xuality, the biblical interpretation of the word «abomination» relates to any act of uncleanness as set out in the Holiness Code, such as eating shellfish, trimming your hair, touching the skin
of a dead pig (should we stone the entire NFL?)