evantorchmd
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What is missed in a movie about a baseball pitcher
inflicted with epilepsy, PTSD and alcoholism is just how genuinely good he was.
Given the level of equipment, an era where pitchers be expected to finish 9 innings and pitching against 'Murderer's Row' i.e., the NY Yankees of the late '20's, he was not an immortal, but he was also HOF caliber!
Both my grandfathers believed he was an alcoholic even after I told them about epilepsy and his artillary duty in WW1, so he battled one very stubborn reputation to shake off!
Even in 2025 his true ultimate decay and desolation would redeem nothing in life for any of us.
Given the level of equipment, an era where pitchers be expected to finish 9 innings and pitching against 'Murderer's Row' i.e., the NY Yankees of the late '20's, he was not an immortal, but he was also HOF caliber!
Both my grandfathers believed he was an alcoholic even after I told them about epilepsy and his artillary duty in WW1, so he battled one very stubborn reputation to shake off!
Even in 2025 his true ultimate decay and desolation would redeem nothing in life for any of us.
What a story this could and should have been.
This film is embarrasingly obvious- the antithesis of death's dual attractions as peace and inherent repellant horrors- due in large part to the self conscious Brad Pitt, and spreading through to infect Anthony Hopkins and Jeffery Tambor.
If one wants to tackle the most abstract and ambivalent struggles of life and it's ending, he must spare at all costs the mugging self consciousness of Pitt's portrayal of Death incarnate.
Added into this is a martyred Anthony Hopkins, a truly gifted actor, who never remotely protests or questions why or how all of this supernatural mythological personification lands on him alone, and you have a pat, lazy, maudlin fantasy!
When I think of what MIGHT HAVE BEEN.......
This film is embarrasingly obvious- the antithesis of death's dual attractions as peace and inherent repellant horrors- due in large part to the self conscious Brad Pitt, and spreading through to infect Anthony Hopkins and Jeffery Tambor.
If one wants to tackle the most abstract and ambivalent struggles of life and it's ending, he must spare at all costs the mugging self consciousness of Pitt's portrayal of Death incarnate.
Added into this is a martyred Anthony Hopkins, a truly gifted actor, who never remotely protests or questions why or how all of this supernatural mythological personification lands on him alone, and you have a pat, lazy, maudlin fantasy!
When I think of what MIGHT HAVE BEEN.......