He's a foreign kid taken in by baseball? Especially the Dodgers. Knows their history going back to Walter Alston?
I found that hard to believe
" Tell me mom...when your little girl's on the slab...where will it tickle you?"
In the original movie they use that to show that no matter what, he will come back to some place, that's how they catch him.
Maybe they should have make Marxin an american so that was more real.
I just watched this film on rental DVD last night. Even though the time period switching made it hard to follow at times, I thought Marzin, the Dodger fan & rapist killer looked a lot like this guy.
http://www.biography.com/people/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-21196765
As you see from real life a 9 year old kid arrives in the USA. Just the right age to become a baseball fan if he were around other American kids in school who were. 11 years later in real life ... 13 years later in the movie.
That facial connection gave the movie an extra chilling effect. Before the film ended I was thinking him and some mosque buddies were planning a stadium event. I based that on the fact that the CT squad were talking about a 2nd 911 event in LA. Him being knowledgeable added to the realism.
I don't remember if they said Marzin was an immigrant or born in the USA as a baby of immigrant parents.
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Books and movies are usually better than real life.
The film doesn't give us his back story, it may be that he was born in the US or moved there at a young age.
But there's nothing unrealistic about the idea of someone following a sports team from a different country.
I am an English football fan. I know plenty of non-English fans of my club, some of whom have never been to England but know more about the history of the club than plenty of English fans who go to the games. I get the feeling that when you're following a club from a distance like that, there's a tendency to read up on it, to get to know the history, in a sense as a way of proving your worth as a fan.
I also know plenty of English people over here who are fans of american sports teams in the US. This way round, it's even more common, because US sports don't travel so well. By which I mean, if you're a European who's into American football or baseball, then you will tend to follow an American gridiron or baseball team, simply because we don't have such teams over here.
So, I find transatlantic following of a sports team extremely easy to believe.