One of the things I really appreciate the medium of cinema
for is being able to take subjects and ideas that I probably wouldn’t have
thought twice about on this side of the screen, and turn it into something
worth being invested in. Subjects like professional sports, about as far from
my hobbyist purview as a tea leaf is to the larger workings of the East India
Trading Company, and something I’ve looked at in past reviews like Concussion.
Not something I take much interest in personally, but with the right filmmaker,
I’m willing to give it a second glance. Steven Soderbergh has managed to do
just that.
