Disco Pigs
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| Disco Pigs | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Kirsten Sheridan |
| Produced by | Ed Guiney |
| Written by | Enda Walsh |
| Starring | Elaine Cassidy Cillian Murphy |
| Music by | Gavin Friday Maurice Seezer |
| Cinematography | Igor Jadue-Lillo Peter Robertson |
| Editing by | Ben Yeates |
| Distributed by | Renaissance Films |
| Release date(s) | November 16, 2001 |
| Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | Ireland |
| Language | English |
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| IMDb profile | |
Disco Pigs is a 2001 Irish film directed by Kirsten Sheridan and written by Enda Walsh, who adapted it from his 1996 play of the same name. Cillian Murphy and Elaine Cassidy star as Cork teenagers who have a lifelong, but unhealthy friendship that is imploding as they approach adulthood.
[edit] Plot
The film revolves around the intense relationship of the two teenage protagonists, Darin and Sinead, nicknamed "Pig" and "Runt". Pig and Runt were born at the same hospital at nearly the same time and grow up right next door to each other. This brings about a very close relationship between the two that borders on telepathic. The two talk in their own idiosyncratic "language." They live in their own world and barely communciate with the world around them. However, up until their seventeenth year, their relationship remains one of friendship, albeit a very intense unhealthy one.
Eventually however, Runt catches and reciprocates the attentions of another young man from her school just as Pig begins to notice Runt. As their seventeenth birthdays draws closer Pig's violent nature becomes more and more obvious and his romantic intentions towards Runt becomes confirmed when he kisses her after a rampage at a disco. Runt however does not want to give Pig what he wants of her. She doesn't know how to reject him; therefore, she continues her friendship with him feeling awkward and caged. Pig remains very protective of Runt and finally their closeness raises the concerns of the school they attend. They are separated and Runt is sent away to boarding school. Pig is crushed by this and decides to track down Runt and make her his again. This starts off an irreversible chain of events that will ultimately end in tragedy.
[edit] Characters
Darin/Pig is portrayed by Cillian Murphy, who also originated the part on the stage. Runt is the only person Pig knows well. He cannot begin to comprehend a world where Runt does not exist. Together they create a surreal world where there is little division between reality and dreams and Pig's and Runt's two personas. Pig is a strange, volatile dreamer.
Runt is portrayed by Elaine Cassidy. She is the calmer of the two characters. When events involving Pig get too wild, Runt steps in quietly. Although the less voiced of the two, she is the more independent. Eileen Walsh played this role in the on stage version.
Pig and Runt are the only actual characters in the play version. The other characters are merely described by them. The film has a number of other, mostly very minor, characters beyond Pig and Runt.
