Anyone else see this movie? I liked it a lot, there seemed to be a strong streak of someone searching for meaning in a life without much of it (existentialism?). Thought that Brad Pitt did an excellent job. Couldn't lay out with certainty his motives, in part because - as was evidenced by him asking himself, at some point in the film, what he was doing - I don't think he had a set reason. Frankly, I developed strong feelings of empathy with the character, though I may not have a calling in the same way that he seemed to for the coaching activities in which he was immersed.
Specifically, I found the relationship with the daughter kind of troubling to watch and contemplate, fictitious though it might be...
Essentially, I took the scene where he goes to the game instead of turning around to visit her to be an abandonment of his responsibilities as a parent in favor of his own ego as a baseball coach...
