Written and directed by Katherine Connor Duff, when a nasty subscriber forces an Onlyfans foot model to show her face on camera, she must contend with the backlash from her audience. Starring: Siena Solinda, Frank Krueger, Jordan Hendricks, Chad Addison, Andrew B. Lipson, Ross Gosla and Dane Oliver.
Firstly, the conversation which Katherine Connor Duff is attempting to open up with This Little Piggy Goes to Market is a very relevant and necessary one. Delving into the idea of reality versus social media, unrealistic expectations, lack of empathy, intense vanity, self-gratification, voyeurism, and how a lot of people aren’t looking for reality on social media, only to fulfil their own fantasies. It’s a great basis for a short film and Duff does certainly make her point clear, but it doesn’t entirely feel like a new perspective on the conversation.
It can also feel like it gets caught up in actually creating the thing that it’s a satire of. It spends so much time on Penelope’s (Siena Solinda) feet, that it strays away from the real story. It’s a key element with short film to know when you’ve established your point and to move forward, but This Little Piggy Goes to Market gets stuck, particularly in the opening on establishing the setting. It ideally needed to stray away from the feet content a little earlier to give itself time to delve more deeply into the crux of the story, and all the mental health involved, on both sides of the equation.
However, there’s a strong visual, that sincere effort to intensely create a pink aesthetic is well done and helps to set that initial light and flirty tone, to be able to then crash down to reality as the short progresses. The cinematography from Steven Jared Mangurten is good work, and it’s nicely consistent throughout. Siena Solinda gives a great performance, she does well to capture the desperation, the wavering self-confidence, and how manipulative an audience can be. Of course, all the men involved also do a wonderful job of capturing a typical perverted, selfish, man-child audience.
This Little Piggy Goes to Market has a very relevant concept, and terrific intentions to open up that discussion of toxic expectation and how little respect anyone has for other people’s feelings on social media. However, it doesn’t truly feel like it has a unique perspective to add to that conversation and spends too much time setting the scene. Its satire is missing a sharpness, or something to really add a punch to its message.
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