Review of Pig

I did not go into this movie expecting it to be about the transcendent beauty and power of food, but as an ex-fine-dining chef it was probably one of the best food movies ever made. How it captures the underground nature of such an insular community that if you've never been a member of you'll never understand. Albeit in an over dramatized manner, it still has come closer to showing what being a chef is really about more than any gritty drug movie or celebratory journey of self discovery through food crap. If you're a back of the house restaurant worker this should be A#1 on the top of your list. Beautiful, touching, haunting. The whole theater was gold with teens and bros and dads in khaki shorts and they all had their mouthed gaping or crying when the lights came up.