The 127-minute-long movie not only starts from the protagonist's childhood, but also tells a story of oil digging in a small town in Texas. The former highlights the protagonist's unhappiness in half his life, while the latter is on a similar basis. Emphasize that dreams cannot be given up and the emperor's lesson not to pay the painstaking efforts. Since there may be an endless supply of oil buried under the soil, why can't a thirty-five-year-old arm be stronger than it was twenty years ago?
But the subject that fascinates me the most is the fact that baseball movies are the only male melodrama in Hollywood . In general melodrama movies, most of them focus on the psychological state of women trapped in society or the material state of life. But baseball movies are just the opposite. The complexity of women in them is minimized, and they often only serve as secondary roles to verbally support the hero's struggle. Instead, it is the psychological conflict and competition between men and men that become the focus. Looking around the history of film, there is no sport that brings Hollywood boys to tears more than baseball, "Born to Be Good" directed by Barry Levinson and starring Robert Refford, and "Born to Be Good" directed by Phil Aiden Robinson and starring Kevin Kirsner. Dreams Come True", even invariably ends the film with a father-son pair of baseball. The arc drawn when passing the ball has become a ceremony that ties in reconciliation and inheritance.
What is intriguing is that "The Rookie" also shoots and passes the ball more than once, but our protagonist can only pass the ball to his younger brother at first, and then he throws it against the wall and the iron net alone, and his father is always absent. And my father not only ignored his baseball game, but even repeatedly said: "I want you to know that there is more important thing than baseball." Classes that blow his confidence. And the male protagonist's constant calling of his father as Sir, and the somewhat unfair assignment of the regret of not being able to fulfill his baseball dream in the past on his father, are all closely related to his father's absence from baseball ceremonies. Therefore, the male protagonist's act of taking his son to practice ball forever becomes intriguing. And when he was hesitating whether to give up the teaching job that was waiting for him and venture into the professional world, his wife, who was originally against it, finally agreed to encourage him because he couldn't teach him to give up his dreams in front of his eight-year-old son. In the movie, baseball is not just a sport, but an extended symbol of male parenting issues, which is very obvious.
So we don't have to be surprised, when the movie comes to an end, when the hero who first stepped on the major league field rewarded the opponent for a strong strikeout, he was so moved by his father who came to watch the game and how he gave the ball to him. To father, father mixed reactions. In the past, it was too late to participate, and it seemed that all of them had reached an understanding on the baseball that my son gave back. If inspiration is the obvious theme of this film, the masculine enzyme between baseball's hit and pitch is the softener that keeps the theme from hardening.
