This film is about American football or, as we in Australia
call it, 'Baby’s First Ball Sport'. All that padding, the overblown halftime
shows, the terminology that makes calculus look straight forward by comparison;
I don’t ‘get’ the point of most sports to begin with, but this especially. Or,
at the very least, its sheer enormity in terms of deemed importance. Then
again, that’s probably a side effect of growing up where the national sport
(excluding cricket and outrunning the cassowary) is essentially the same thing only
we don’t think little things like protective gear are necessary. Save for cups
because, when given the option to protect only one head, only one in a million would choose a helmet. Anyway, long
story short, this is going to be another one of those situations where I am
going to be a bit more perplexed than the general populace about the importance
of the film’s subject matter. Well, as far as the reason why the people involved are getting permanently injured, at least.
