Kevin's Watch

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...

Spoiler

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...

have not seen it, have read they changed too much of what happened. though i may pick up the book.

sgt.null wrote:have not seen it, have read they changed too much of what happened. though i may pick up the book.

Ya, I did spend some of my time in the movie with those "how could they have possibly had that kind of interiority" moments...so I assumed they must have interviewed Beane in the process of writing the book?

I'm not a baseball guy generally, maybe that's why the movie was able to appeal to me.

people have said that the movie gives short thrift to the manager of the a's.

plus at the heart of it is that Beane has not proven he can win a world series with his teams.