Moneyball
No need to appreciate baseball to join “Moneyball”. You just love good cinema. With assets like Brad Pitt, Bennett Miller (“Capote”) to achieve and Aaron Sorkin (“Social Network”) to the script, the story is unlikely to have much control on his record.
What can a baseball team with a low payroll and stripped of its best players? Take risks and try new strategies. It’s just that trying to Director General (Brad Pitt) and Oakland Athletics by hiring a youngster (Jonah Hill) that develops mathematical formulas to find the best athletes in the lowest price. A method that will not please everyone…
Very popular in another era (that of “Durahm Bull”, “Eight Men Out” and other “Major League”), baseball is back on screens with this feature film inspired by a book by Michael Lewis that was based a true fact. Ironically occurring very rarely in the field of play, this essay surveys the scenes of professional sport, to discover the daily life of its craftsmen. Extremely verbose, the premise owes much to the words of Aaron Sorkin. Like the “Social Network”, the writer has managed the feat of making interesting and even fascinating a subject that is not. The vigorous exchanges between the characters are in suspense and the many themes (the need to fight in a world dominated by money, the desire to redeem the past by not hamper the future, etc..) are explored in detail, without the concepts of statistics constrain the interest.
Despite some unnecessary detours (the whole concept of the family hero, as his past that his relationship with his daughter and his ex-wife) and a rhythm that is sometimes slow to take off, the filmmaker Bennett Miller has done an exemplary job. His portrayal is subtle but effective, using the clip to appropriate locations, while the beautiful music of Mychael Danna never preached by excess. His direction of actors is more than respectable. Brad Pitt has rarely seemed so charismatic. The actor provides as ever, and the duo he forms with the surprising Jonah Hill is simply irresistible. A chemistry that transforms practically the drama in comedy, which is not a thin matter. The rest of the distribution is far from negligible includes Philip Seymour Hoffman in exquisite coach recalcitrant and Robin Wright who sadly underused.
Who would have thought that the worker was a general manager as exciting? This is the case that of “Moneyball”. Much more than work on sport, rather it is a modern fable about money and power, while David has always compete in the same arena as Goliath. Maybe the Montreal Canadiens could be inspired…
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