“Dead Pigs” – Floaters [MOVIE REVIEW] SHARE Vivian Wu as Candy Wang and Haoyu Wang as Old Wang in Cathy Yan's "Dead Pigs." Photo courtesy of Film Movement. Vivian Wu as Candy Wang and Haoyu Wang as Old Wang in Cathy Yan’s “Dead Pigs.” Photo courtesy of Film Movement. “Dead Pigs” is a head-scratcher of a movie. Cathy Yan, the writer/director, considers this film to be a social satire and in its best moments, it is. But sometimes those moments are few and far between. Opening on Old Wang (Haoyu Yang) in a Virtual Reality Gallery, he is unpleasant, selfish, and rude—a real pig. How on the nose is it that he is actually a pig farmer? Arriving home from his foray into the city, he is shocked to discover that all of his pigs, his entire livelihood, are dead. This couldn’t come at a worse time because the arrogant and ignorant Old Wang has just made an imprudent investment and owes a lot of money to some really unsavory guys.