Hollywood ... on the wrong lead as usual

Rating: 2/10 (6 May 2006)

I saw this film recently on a American channel that, like so many, has more commercials then program. Usually that bothers me but in this case the ads were more of a relief than anything else. "Seabiscuit" isn't as openly reactionary as "Hidalgo" but is just about as bad in most other respects. Some commentators seemed to believe,yes, this a really bad movie that's nonetheless "okay" for people who happen to like horses. I don't understand why this should follow. I think of myself as one of the latter and it is for this reason I find this thing particularly annoying. Horse racing is not an especially noble enterprise although the facts aren't quite as bad as in decades past. Here some improvements are spin offs from the positive actions of individual owners and the general public (California's proposition 6 in 1998) not due to any help from Hollywood. The film industry seems to be on a crusade to inflict the "Disney" disease on almost every public issue or personal interest (or so it seems at times) and the rest of us have to work hard to undo the damage so caused. Anyway,as others have noted,"Seabiscuit" is the product of the counterfeit post 9-11 " Who Are We" outlook coming more from the tortured minds of the chattering classes then out of any real need for "interior" revaluation on the part of joe public.