This short Film begins with a wide shot of a white hooded male indulging in a cigarette; he is looking nervous and agitated, the camera changes to a close up shot of his facial expressions as he’s looking at the opposite direction like something’s bothering him. This point the camera switches to a medium long shot of another white male leaving his house, which looks like a normal man going to work, he’s costume is a typical business suite worn by most people working in offices. This moment the audience is put into suspense as why is the hooded male focusing on the other male leaving his house.
The white male protagonist in the opening scene is introduced as a wary individual, this is due to him covering his head with a hood, and franticly chuffing on a cigarette, which tells us that he isn’t in a normal state of mind, While the male protagonist is introduced as a normal working man in a suite which seems as he’s leaving his house to go work. When the camera is focused on the working male, it has a small deep focus onto the male this effect was used to enhance the edgy feeling towards the audience, putting them in the hooded male’s position.
‘Sexy Pig’ has a realistic narrative aspect, it’s enforced into the short in many aspects, firstly is the costume, one male is wearing a hooded coat and other male is wearing a suite, this was used to acknowledge the social differences between the two males. Another aspect that links to realism is the lighting, the whole film consists of natural lighting, and this may have been used to enhance the realism in the movie, as this movie could relate to many real life situations where innocent people have been robbed in broad daylight. The story is easily predicted by the audience as the beginning as they think the hooded male is going to go along with a robbery, little did they know the movie had a twist.
The film ends with the white hooded male wearing just his underwear, covered in egg and flour, running for his dear life, as he was merely shocked of the arrival of the owner of the house. Before this occurred, the male was engaging in a unusual phone call with a strange man demanding him to follow his instructions forcing him to complete acts that the audience would find weird and funny. This left a direct message to everyone that thinks of robbing another person’s home, as who knows what kind of possessions the house could consist of.
The short film left me in shock, as I didn’t acknowledge the many possibilities of phone calls someone could receive in a normal home; making me think to avoid robbing another person’s home just to slide past the possibilities of a homophobic phone call.
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