TEAM FOXCATCHER

TEAM FOXCATCHER

TEAM FOXCATCHER: 9.5 out of 10 

Now the third story in a relatively short amount of time to describe the events in detail of what exactly went down when John duPont murdered Dave Schultz. 

This was definitely more informative and factual than FOXCATCHER was and it was put together much better and flowed a lot better than THE PRINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA. 

Of all depictions I've seen regarding the issue, this is by far the one that answered the most amount of questions, rather than trying to rely on a sly technique of mystique and wonder that both FOXCATCHER and THE PRINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA tried to pull off. 

I still feel that the wrestling community is a bit presumptuous and pretentious on matters, but I give the community more grace here, because of the seriousness and importance of this story. 

Dave was a very special man and a very loved individual. It's clear watching people 20 years later speak of the incident and they still have a hard time speaking through tears of what happened. 

The movie has an underlying, subtle message of the corrupted way in which our society allows power and money to rule over common sense, values, and the rudimentary sense of right and wrong and good and evil. 

It also takes a strong shot at the wrestlers who continued to benefit off of the blood money, post Dave's murder. I'm glad it did. I don't have a problem with this fact being shed to light and I wish they would have exposed more of the wrestlers by name. We as the wrestling community have made excuses and defended these people for 20 years. We've been afraid to call them out. We've feared repercussions for voicing that what they did was selfish. As as I'm concerned, they might as well have loaded the gun themselves, if not have pulled the trigger. They had no other choice? We were too close to the Olympics for them to pull out? Where else were they going to go? I don't know enough about it to make such a statement? Whatever. To me all of it was blood money and taking it and continuing to train and benefit was bullshit. 

I understand why things were done the way they were. I guess I don't know what else to say about it. 

As far as the film goes, it interest me that Mark Schultz was never mentioned or interviewed throughout this entire documentary. 

Three films, and we still have parts of the story that are most likely untold. 

The sport of wrestling deserves better than John duPont and as of late Dennis Hastert. 

Film puts me in a sour mood, but not because it wasn't good. It was very well done. Just reminds me that a beautiful human being was taken from us way too soon and that wrestling and life in general still has a lot of ugliness to it.