‘HIM’ review: All Guts, No Glory

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HIM is a dumb movie, and that’d be fine if it were just a dumb movie — some of the best horror movies are bone-stupid! — but it’s not. It’s a dumb movie with pretensions of being something greater, something profound. A statement on the evils of the institution of football, which sells a myth of greatness at the expense of safety, and the (white) culture so eager to see (Black) players sacrifice themselves at the altar of entertainment. The complicity of owners, of fans, of doctors and other players, all combining to prop up a dangerous cult of sport that feeds bodies into the same grist mill as, I guess, the Roman Colosseum and Jesus on the cross. Or something.

The would-be profundity

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