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Sad moments

posted 16 years ago by Doug-169
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I watched this movie for the first time last week and again tonight. It is on cable and without commercials so that makes it not as long. Anyway, I really liked this movie. Funny & Sad and some drama. The sad part that got to me was when coach told the heavens that they were getting a good player in Saul since the angel told coach he'd be with them the next year. Another moment was when the little star said she was 8 and then answered she had been there 8 years. The look on coach's face said it all. I was hoping the other little girl with glasses that hid them because "nobody will adopt a girl with glasses", would somehow be adopted before the movie ended. Her character was just left hanging there.

[–] SealordJohn 15 years ago

I'm watching the movie right now on cable. I have seen it probably five times before over the years. I love it because of the touching moments and the reminders of my youth when I followed professional baseball.
I just saw the scene where the young orphan girl removes her glasses when Duffy first came to visit the orphanage because she thought he was looking for someone to adopt. Then seeing her obvious disappointment when she learned the real reason for Duffy's first visit made me think about all the other orphans who never get adopted.
I laughed so hard each time they distorted Duffy's voice when he needed to vocalize his anger. It was a great technique to make this movie viewable by children.
But there is one factor that I thought should have been mentioned in the movie but it wasn't. When I attended Catholic elementary school, we were taught how each one of us had an angel assigned to us and how we needed to pray to them for help. Why didn't anyone use this argument with the sisters of the orphanage? Those sisters seemed to treat young Bridget like she had seen some kind of ghost or demon instead of heavenly angels. The closest they came to mentioning this was later in the movie, during the commissioner's hearing, when a minister, rabbi and priest were asked to testify.
There were many other moments throughout this movie that still make me laugh or cry no matter how many times I have seen them.

[–] Molly-31 14 years ago

Sisters of that type have a practical, pragmatic focus and -- at least at first -- seek more likely explanations when a seemingly unlikely event occurs. The same thing might have happened at your school if you or one of your classmates had suddenly begun to see angels, especially if only one child saw them.

As far as I know, most religious are taught to think practically about mystical experiences and always have been, so there wouldn't be a lot of excitement every time some novice got a little woozy during a fasting period.

In The Exorcist when Chris asks Father Karras what he would say to an exorcism, and he says "get a psychiatrist", that's right on the money. That is really how they think. The book covers exactly what they have to do to convince anyone that something supernatural is going on.

Besides, the last thing that orphanage needed was a visionary. Anytime word gets out that someone's seeing angels, you risk a media frenzy like the one in this film. They'd never get anything done.

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[–] RichN36 14 years ago

I'm not so sure that Bridgit was the only one who saw Angles. When she is speaking up at the park her friend the one with the glasses looks like she almost wants to speak up but holds back for some reasion.

I have to agree with the other posters this is an Amazing movie As I list my Favorite Baseball movies I am thinking about adding this to my Top 10 favorite list.

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[–] elena-28 12 years ago

This kind of treatment is pretty old: take a look at the records from Joan of Arc's re-trial: there are church-associated participants still alive from her questioning at Poitiers. they testified, giving examples of their questions, and these questions were also aimed at trying to be sure Joan's voices were the real thing or a delusion. Earlier on, when she went to Vaucoleurs, Robert de Baudricourt told her to go home and have her father whip some sense into her; when he finally gave in and sponsored her trip to the Dauphin, his last words to her were "Go, and let come what may."

Incidentally, my favorite exchange from the testimony is the old Bishop de Soissons remembering when he asked Joan about what sort of accents her voices had. He explained that he was from Soissons; Joan was from Domremy, considerably more up north. So when he asked, she replied the had "a better one than yours." The old Bishop seemed to relish this memory. I can hear him chuckling as he would have related it.