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watched “42”; the strongest person is the one who resists the urge to succumb to brass instinct and wisely fights to win a war, over (what ultimately is petty) fisticuffs. Just as baseball is a sport obsessed with statistics – the life, the press, and the political game of Jackie Robinson is a chess match. Harrison Ford as the grim and witty manager steals the show (truly a performance the Oscars snubbed this year); he can’t simply make trades and high string the system the way Brad Pitt does in “Moneyball” (2011, Bennett Miller) – Ford must combat the embedded mindset of racism and the ideals of people who cannot and refuse to function under the circumstances of a nergo-ballplayer. The dynamics set in “42” are so good that the real downside is that it isn’t longer – the duo of Ford and Chadwick Boseman is the material for an incredible and durable screen couple.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 02:16:32 +0000

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