Il maledetto United

A Soccer Coach Divides and Doesn’t Conquer

Back in the old, pre-cable days, “Wide World of Sports” on ABC used to promise “the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.” That famous catchphrase contained an implicit recognition of a fact seldom acknowledged in America’s triumphalist sports culture, namely that failure can be as compelling as success, sometimes even more so.
Maybe England is different. In any case, “The Damned United” is the rare sports movie that deals with — indeed positively relishes — humiliation and disappointment. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (5178 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 9 Ottobre 2009