AC/DC, BLACK SABBATH, KISS, DEF LEPPARD and GUN N ROSES, are the t-shirts themes used by the main caracter during the movie.
Although it took some time for the authorities to give the production a permit, "Pig" was actually approved by Iran's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.
In a country where a series of dissident intellectuals have been murdered by internal government operatives, and a region where countries still practice legal beheadings -- as do Jihadist terror groups -- there's obvious symbolism behind the decapitation theme and the killing of intellectuals.
Director Jafar Panahi, who in 2010 was sentenced to six years in prison and banned from filmmaking for 20 years, is a classic case of an Iranian filmmaker who has continued his work underground.
The biggest joke of the movie is a high political one, in which the one(s) who hates Iranian filmmakers is exactly the government/dictatorship. Like the main character, almost every Iranian filmmaker is or were banned, arrested or exiled.
