“Eephus” review: one final game

But this is not a movie about Sox, as it is not, at least on his face, about anything epic at all. In fact, the MLB team barely appears at all, although Bill Lee, also known as “Spaceman”, is a well -known laben jug that played for Boston in the 1970s, depicting a simple character in the movie. Instead, the drama focuses on two entertainment basements that met in the Soldier’s Field in the last match that this diamond will see.

In a malicious development in the gender conference – the people of the small town trying to save a popular public space because some of the terrible terrible will build a commercial center on it, or something like that – the reason that the soldier’s field disappears is that they are building a school on it. A general school. His proximity to people’s homes will make life easier for every father in this city. How do they dare, right?

“Eephus” is not aimed at the story. In fact, “Eephus” never advances any specific plot point. The scenario, written by Lund, Michael Basta and Nietition Fischer, is completely outside the movie Sports Movie Trops, although it is certainly Besspol. It lives in some of the restricted space between Hangout Movie and Elegy, and it is a tribute to the community institutions that bring us together, and that we have exposed each other, and that in the era of improved life options and the disappearance of public spaces, they fade slowly.

This makes it look very dangerous, which is “Eephus” not. The bow is the same simplicity: the teams gather to play the game, which passes much longer than they expected, then at the end, they returned home. Between, men feel anxious, spit, argue, sometimes wander and hit the ball. They inherit at the end of the era of playing the ball, but whenever someone operated it on the field in two cities, they refuse loudly and in the same time: this field is not good and the city is also poor. (Their language is a little stronger than I can print here.)

There are some delicious Easter eggs in the indigenous population in the region – laughed, nostalgia, in M. In the rounding of the floor round on the fence – but there are some for cinema as well. There is no single character that appears as a hero, although some faces will feel knowledge of other small independent films. However, I have never seen the most prominent actor, regardless of me, a radio broadcaster named the Morland branch, who we hear early in talking about the closure of the field and other local news, and who presents the pearls of wisdom among the film’s works, each of which was called the time from the day when the game (midday “,” golden watch “). Moreland was expressed, with joy, by documentary Friedrich Wazman, a Boston and one of the most abundant and famous American managers of all ages, but barely known as the actor.