Normally, this would be a sort of saccharine, feel-good movie that could just be dismissed. However, there's a labour-of-love feel about the film, both from Redford and Barry Levinson who directed, which comes across and makes the story believably optimistic and sincere. I don't know that much about baseball, other than that I'm the exact age of Barry Bonds who was a hitter for The San Fransisco Giants, but that doesn't seem to matter watching this film.
Saturday 8 December 2012
The Natural
There are a few Robert Redford films that I like, mostly from the 1970's (All The President's Men, Three Days Of The Condor). This was made during the 1980's and is about that American obsession, baseball. Roy Hobbs mysteriously joins to a struggling baseball team after being shot and critically wounded by a murderous femme fatale many years before, cutting short a promising career before it even started.
Normally, this would be a sort of saccharine, feel-good movie that could just be dismissed. However, there's a labour-of-love feel about the film, both from Redford and Barry Levinson who directed, which comes across and makes the story believably optimistic and sincere. I don't know that much about baseball, other than that I'm the exact age of Barry Bonds who was a hitter for The San Fransisco Giants, but that doesn't seem to matter watching this film.
Normally, this would be a sort of saccharine, feel-good movie that could just be dismissed. However, there's a labour-of-love feel about the film, both from Redford and Barry Levinson who directed, which comes across and makes the story believably optimistic and sincere. I don't know that much about baseball, other than that I'm the exact age of Barry Bonds who was a hitter for The San Fransisco Giants, but that doesn't seem to matter watching this film.
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