Blind Pig Who Wants To Fly

Feeling Like Aliens in Their Own Land

American audiences may find “Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly,” the debut feature of the one-named Indonesian director Edwin, a bit slow and cryptic for a dark comedy about feeling out of place in one’s own country. But given censorship — relaxed since the 1990s, but still there — and a national reluctance to confront the ethnic scapegoating that occasionally results in the murders of large numbers of Indonesian Chinese, it’s a sign of changing times that the film could be made at all.
The movie is a series of vignettes, practically blackouts, that jump back and forth in time and among a loosely connected group of characters centered on Linda, a young ethnic Chinese woman (Ladya Cheryl). [...]

di Mike Hale, articolo completo (2888 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 11 settembre 2009