What is the value of holding your ground within an institution that aims to cast you out? For Ellis French, the answer to that question is defined by a lack of alternatives. As he tearfully admits, French doesn't imagine a long life anywhere -- no family to accept him nor education to be hired with, and a growing danger of life on the streets. The U.S. Marines is depicted as a harsh, homophobic, racist institution that still manages to be…
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Fair Play 2023
Sundance 2023: Movie #15
“Here’s here to support your vision. Not steer it.”
While the gendered conflict of a man processing his personal shame through anger toward the woman in his life exists in countless settings, the particular industry depicted here still feels unspecific. Fair Play is set in the world of stocks and multi-million-dollar profits and losses, though the intensity never comes across to the audience as it does to all the characters throwing fits over it. Perhaps this…
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