Review of Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly

I just saw 52 movies at the CPH:Pix Film festival 2009, and this movie unfortunately fails in so many aspects. The theme of shedding some light on the problematic issue of Chinese immigrant population in Indonesia sounded very interesting in the program, and usually love avantgarde movies. But from beginning to end, i felt like i was watching a movie made by some art student that really wanted to make a point with every scene, but who does not seem to have learned how to put together a well presented movie. There are many interesting scenes, which in the hands of a good movie director would have been able to make a big impact. But instead you are just left with a feeling of watching something very boring and you don't really feel the the individual tableaux are connecting with each other.

Unfortunately this movie went to my bottom 5 list of the 52 movies seen at the festival.