03 October 2010

It's the same dame, metaphorically, at least

The Natural

(1984)
Ah, the sad last day of the season for us with no horse in the postseason race, and my choice for elegiac farewell-to-baseball movie is the mythic tale of Knight errant Roy Hobbs, his mystical (and phallic) warclub Wonderboy, two very bad women, and one very good one. A 154-game schedule's worth of hokum, and many have complained about the happy ending, but that's one of the beauties of myth, isn't it? The rules are ironclad, but they don't demand failure.

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