A little comedic, a little dramatic, a little musical... I don't know, but it didn't quite had me at any moment. It's not bad, definitely, but it's not something special, either.

Another fine addition to that gorgeous, but gritty branch of independent Chinese cinema.

Dead Pigs is quirky and vibrant where the characters collide through their personal turmoils and as their city undergoes big changes. Crazy salon bird lady steals the show defending her house from developers.

It a greatest movie ever seen

Hearfelt, surprising (in some ways), and overall, a wonderful. The movie is also an intersection of east meets west and rich v poor, as well as a society's growing pains.

Commies, get a grip on reality.

Obviously. How is this movie 97%? Oh yeah everyone ships jobs there. 1 star to our masters movie.

this movie happens in fantasy land that doesn't exists. china is not like this at all and this just really a movie to trick people about china. i have to question the motives of the producers and director of this film. to be fair there are stylish notes and aesthetically it is pleasing but I can't get past the hypocrisy and inaccuracies in its social critique.

I like how the ‘critics’ give this film such a high rating and actual film viewers reveal the truth…Rotten Tomatoes is rotten.

must see movie! excellent social and political criticism on the present!

It was really good until the pigs died. It was really unexpected and surprising. Other than that It was awesome. RIP PORKY

The Chinese title of Cathy Yan's 2018 debut feature means 'City floating on the Sea', which is both a lyrical and literal translation of Shanghai and gives you an idea of what the film's intentions are. Now available on streaming after Birds of Prey's success last year, you'll see narrative structural similarities which explains why DC tapped her for the later film. Assured, accomplished, and reminding me of Mike Leigh infused with the quirky sense of the Coen Brothers, this is set in a rapidly sprawling and modernizing Shanghai city and revolves around a bunch of initially disparate characters: a brash farmer, a larger-than-life salon owner, a lonely busboy, a sad rich girl and a dislocated American architect, that are somehow connected with a property development scheme, which symbolizes progress in Chinese society, but tainted with a sense of tacky decadence. Inspired by a real life event when thousands of dead pigs mysteriously float down the Huangpu river, this serves as a springboard to a bunch of stories in which everyone's faking it to keep up with the ever changing times. Yan's beautiful and meaningful compositions are accompanied by a delightfully soothing score that nicely juxtaposed with an increasingly pulsating narrative pace that the film crescendos into. I do believe that there's a sense of lost in subtitles here and native Shanghaiese speakers (not Mandarin) will find more affinity and nuance to this film than non-speakers. Likewise, people more in tune with Chinese culture will get more from this while others might find it more bewildering. Either way, there's an edgy rawness to the film as not everything hangs perfectly together but there's undeniable charm and plenty of heart here, despite an ending that perhaps tries too hard to find a positive spot for every main character to land on.

0.74 laughs/min. 4.7% of movie spent tense. Cathy Yan's directorial debut is a wonderful dramedy grounded in the ramifications of modernization, consumer capitalism, and decadence in modern day China.

Watched on Mubi yesterday, I loved it in so many ways really gave an nuance and entertaining view of modern urbanisation in China

Dead Pigs is a disappointing directorial debut for Cathy Yan. And by all mean I don’t think it’s her fault as a director. Her direction is stylish and engaging. I completely understand how she was chosen to direct Birds of Prey based off this. The thing is, the story just didn’t hook me. The film juggles multiple storylines with varying quality. Also contrary to Birds of Prey, the pacing is very slow. There are some interesting moments, particularly towards the beginning and end, but in between it just get boring. Overall, I didn’t love this as much as most did. It just didn’t click with me. It might to you, but it didn’t overly with me.

A must-watch... I totally fell in love with Candy's character. The best one by far. It feels uncomfortably close to reality when it comes to daily struggles that everyone deals with and tries to throw by the river by saying "I'm fine". (Did you see what I did there?)

Great Satire! I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THE AUDIENCE IS PANNING IT. Vivian wu and Mason Lee particularly shine

Funny movie with a good story and well acted.

Dead Pigs was a movie that I was really looking forward to seeing, but it let me down in a big way. The film follows four storylines that are supposed to mix together but do so very weakly. The first is about a woman who won't sell her house to a company looking to build a large living space. The second is about her brother who needs to come up with some money to pay back a loan shark who's money he lost in a fraudulent investment. The third is a love story between the brother's son who is so poor that he's getting hit by cars and extorting money to get by and a girl who's father is extremely rich. The fourth storyline is about a white architect in China who takes a job as a semi-model. Each storyline had me invested at least a little bit in each of these characters, and I expected a satisfying conclusion in the end that would bring all these characters together in some way. I didn't get that at all. What I got was a sing-along scene with all the characters and extras as they performed some weird choreography. You know how at the end of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" they literally do a "cop out"? Well this felt like that except worse. The only reason I'm giving this movie 1 1/2 stars instead of 0 is because there were some cool moments in the film, and it had some beautiful shots in it as well.