Friday, June 21, 2013
MICROSPORT
Today's film was a NYTimes Critics' pick, the documentary
Certainly about baseball but more about specialty. There were, when this was made, only two knuckleball pitchers in the big leagues and there have not been that many of them in baseball history.
This is a fraternity with very few members. Distrusted and misunderstood, this near the bone minority cling together.
This makes for a rather absorbing study of the retired and current masters of the art.
More about people than the sport.
Much of the original photography is digital and stunning. Candids, slow motion helps show the physics and psychology of the specialty and the guys who have mastered it.
I enjoyed it and once is enough so it is a 3 out of Netflix5. Some random pictures of Fenway Park and Boston were fun to see.
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