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...started off innocently enough with some post-season baseball as a young boy. Remember the Twins-Braves World Series? Oakland-Red Sox ALCS? Sure you do, but, hell, I remember the commercials...
...this I'm sure. Recently, I have noticed it extends to beyond sports-- I think I just like watching competition. BattleDome, a newer form of American Gladiators, plays on this addiction I have for watching competition. I was watching it yesterday and I still have no idea what the hell they were doing...
Then there are the movies about the military--you know the ones, where the cruel, macho, murdering types are engaging in cover-ups and stuff, all so that they can preserve their old boys club, wrangle a few more missiles from Congress and blow some people to hell. Or maybe you missed "Snake Eyes," "A Few Good Men," "Courage Under Fire" and all the rest of them. No great loss. Even so, you've probably seen the movies about the Catholic Church, like "Godfather III" (the Vatican is in cahoots with the Mob) or "Primal Fear" (bishops are corrupt pedophiles...
...goes on, and the audience accepts that it goes on, because Soderburgh shows us the alternative--not a happy-go-lucky bunch of youngsters smoking up and getting the munchies, but the descent of the drug czar's teenage daughter into a cocaine/heroine hell. He shows us the people who profit from selling self-destruction to a bored, insensate American upper class, but he also shows us that those people are ruthless and evil, and that someone--even the woefully weak agents of our criminal justice system--needs to stand against them...
...whole thing's going to go to hell. I can't see anything but serious disaster," she says. "There's not a lot of people who want to be principals of urban schools. I can't believe they would let that happen...