As Lord Acton once said, "Wrestling corrupts, and Freestyle wrestling . . . "

Rating: 8/10 (7 January 2015)

" . . . corrupts Freesylishly." FOXCATCHER documents how wrestling ruined the lives of several people, renown Orinthologist, Conchologist, Philatelist, Museum Director, and Multimillionaire John Eleutere Du Pont foremost among them. Prior to being bit by the wrestling bug, Doctor (of Natural Sciences) Du Pont discovered 24 species of birds, authored several books about our feathered friends, and for fun purchased the world's most valuable stamp (the 1856 one-of-a-kind British Guiana, notably held by Audrey Hepburn in the film CHARADE). But concurrent with his descent into the underworld of big-time world wrestling, all of Du Pont's old friends and acquaintances noticed be was getting more and more erratic (if not paranoid). This movie is from the point of view of the surviving Olympic Gold Medalist wrestling brother, implying that John introduced HIM to alcohol and cocaine. (Anyone who's been around wrestlers will bet that it was ACTUALLY the other way around, but John's not alive to defend himself!) Wrestling compels this young man to trash hotel rooms, avoid women, as well as to engage in binge eating and regurgitation. Schools value his hang-dog presence as a motivational speaker at $20 a pop (about $9,980 less than Lance Armstrong or O.J. Simpson). In their wisdom, the International Olympic Committee banned wrestling from future Olympics after John's martyrdom, recognizing it for the perverse splinter religion it is. Yet it's allowed to continue corrupting and even killing American high schoolers today (one was found dead in his bed by his mom not far from me this morning). Worse yet, John never recovered from his wrestling disease, and was buried in his FOXCATCHER red singlet, in accordance with his will.