A Loser Wins At Losing

Rating: Null/10 (9 April 2009)

Is this it?
Indulge me, if you will, in a question that may be too big for any one movie to answer
Is this it?
You hope and bleed and struggle and pray, you cheat and study and train and lie, you work and beg and scratch and claw, and the best you get is a pity gesture and sympathy round of applause?
That's not even almost acceptable.
I know Rudy is a true story, a story of hope, and pride, and determination, and grit. Grit is the gravel I find in my shoe.
I don't mean to be so dark- I swear. I know I should like this movie, and I may have seen it on the wrong day, but all I could think about was the lie that is the American dream. The rich stay rich the poor stay ignorant and we console ourselves with fairy tales like these, which assure us that someone, somewhere, will recognize all the good we've done and ultimately reward our behavior, justifying every tear we've shed.
I really wish that was true.
GRADE: D