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However, Director Harold Becker does succeed in capturing the excitement of wrestling and athlete training. A la Rocky, Louden's training is exciting. His heroic--in fact, lunatic--efforts to reduce his body fat and muscle up for the big wrestling showdown with Shufe produces a strange thrill. He runs the miles to his room-service job in a downtown hotel, and foregoes any and all nourishment. He drop the weight so quickly that his nose bleed during practice. We feel his nervous anticipation as he waits in the locker room. His wrestling is not just a sport...
This is a big theme for a jock of Louden's sort to grasp--too big. It is almost laughable when characters in the movie mumble about the meaning of life and athletics. Becker would have been better letting the characters' actions speak for themselves. Instead he lets the various characters take stabs at his nihilist theme, rendering it ridiculous. Louden brings up the meaning of life in English class. His boss at work throws around his philosophical views. Even a fellow wrestler does some moralizing...
VISION QUEST WORKS as a suspenseful picture about athletics. Even its more subtle theme about growing up rings true. It is when about growing up rings true. It is when Becker tries to combine the two that the film gets pinned. In real life rocks don't always give life-and-death meaning to their sports. At the very least, they don't articulate these notions as high-minded philosophy. Becker's attempt at profundity in high school only weighs the move down. The concepts are bigger than the characters...
Those pay provisions seem to represent a victory for GM. Said Alfred Nelson, an industry analyst with Wall Street investment firm Becker-Paribas: "GM has clearly got the better part of the bargain. The settlement is yet another indication of the shift of power from labor to management...
...baseball at Becker Junior College...