If I could give this film an alternate title I'd call it "Gay: The Movie". It was everything a millennial would want to see: LGBTQ causes, women's rights, Jewish people, and cigarettes!
Firstly the good: this had a stellar cast - Sarah Silverman did a superb job of portraying a serious character. There are so many TV and film greats that pop up all throughout the movie.
Now the bad: this wasn't a movie about tennis. It wasn't even about women's rights. It had plenty of homosexual tension, and I mean plenty, like if you missed it the first time we'll just linger longer and longer and longer on that theme. And then throw in more of that theme. And more.
This wasn't a movie about 1973. Too many technology fails for that. And over-exaggerated everything, from clothing to opinions. Maybe this is based somehow on a historical event but it would be described as loose at best and quite a fiction at that.
This wasn't a movie about female greats - you couldn't miss the vilification of Australia's great female tennis player, or the shaming of men filmed back in the day holding, what was then, majority acceptable views.
So what was this movie about, exactly? I'm not sure - and if it wasn't for the clever cinematography and the amazing sizeable cast - I think it wouldn't have had any entertainment value at all - unless I was 17 and felt it confirmed the political views of my friends.
I'm sure setting a movie back in the past is a wonderful vehicle for promoting cigarettes - such an important theme of this movie along with the carefully placed names of big tobacco companies that are most definitely around today.
It's also a wonderful vehicle for rewriting history - and shaming anybody who was a part of that time.
But be careful, kids, movies in 40 years are going to be all about how you were the shameful person because the views you hold today won't be what is acceptable in the future!
Firstly the good: this had a stellar cast - Sarah Silverman did a superb job of portraying a serious character. There are so many TV and film greats that pop up all throughout the movie.
Now the bad: this wasn't a movie about tennis. It wasn't even about women's rights. It had plenty of homosexual tension, and I mean plenty, like if you missed it the first time we'll just linger longer and longer and longer on that theme. And then throw in more of that theme. And more.
This wasn't a movie about 1973. Too many technology fails for that. And over-exaggerated everything, from clothing to opinions. Maybe this is based somehow on a historical event but it would be described as loose at best and quite a fiction at that.
This wasn't a movie about female greats - you couldn't miss the vilification of Australia's great female tennis player, or the shaming of men filmed back in the day holding, what was then, majority acceptable views.
So what was this movie about, exactly? I'm not sure - and if it wasn't for the clever cinematography and the amazing sizeable cast - I think it wouldn't have had any entertainment value at all - unless I was 17 and felt it confirmed the political views of my friends.
I'm sure setting a movie back in the past is a wonderful vehicle for promoting cigarettes - such an important theme of this movie along with the carefully placed names of big tobacco companies that are most definitely around today.
It's also a wonderful vehicle for rewriting history - and shaming anybody who was a part of that time.
But be careful, kids, movies in 40 years are going to be all about how you were the shameful person because the views you hold today won't be what is acceptable in the future!