Bennett Miller's Rasslin' Film Foxcatcher

Really liked this. Found it genuinely creepy, legitimately funny in places, and pretty sad.

I don't quite understand how people think the movie avoids repressed sexuality - it's hovering over every single one of Carell's scenes!

That New Yorker thing about 'what's missing from Foxcatcher is sex' is ridiculous - the whole (heavy handed, sure, fine) point is that Mark is a guy who spend all day with his face in other dudes' armpits and crotches or whatever and he is completely incapable of any real normal human contact.

how come Ruffalo suddenly changed his mind and came to the farm anyway?
I don't remember the specifics of how this plays out, but it follows Mark claiming Dave 'can't be bought' - cut to: Anybody can be bought. It also introduces some tension in the fact that you know Dave is probably getting way more money than Mark (who earlier says "I just thought of the highest number I could when he said 'name your price.')

i haven't read that the film avoids acknowledging repressed sexuality, in fact it's been charged with gay-baiting precisely for seeming to indicate that the main character is a homicidal closet case

ven before he developed delusions that he was being spied on by Nazis and that horses were sending him messages from Mars, there were signs that multimillionaire John Eleuthère du Pont was, at the very least, eccentric.
Touring his 880-acre Foxcatcher Farm in an armoured personnel carrier, he would describe seeing Disney characters looming out of the rain, or trees uprooting themselves and marching around the estate. He feared that intruders were hiding in the walls of his $4 million stately home, hired security contractors to check for secret tunnels under his floorboards, and had the balls on his billiard table checked for listening devices.

Hey, this would make quite a good movie instead of the boring, depressing pos I just watched.

"Even before..."

Never bothered with this. The Team Foxcatcher documentary that's on Netflix tells the undeniably crazy and sad story; per VG upthread, it's the 30 for 30 equivalent you'll want to watch instead.

totally! i did end up watching the 30 for 30... there's another doc too I think. i'm glad they exist as a counter to the movie

but yeah... the movie took a complicated story and boiled it down so much it didn't resemble much of anything except a deeply fictionalized story that Miller wanted to tell

... like Moneyball