Big Fan - parking while Malbin is down
We live in a Golden Age of sports revisionism movies. 2008 brought Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's Sugar, a tender hymn to washouts, and Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, the athlete as sex worker, a body for sale. 2009 brought Wrestler writer Robert Siegel's Big Fan (which the former Onion writer--who claims responsibility for the 'Area Man' trope--wrote and directed), which finds the serious fan on a perpetual seesaw of striving and emasculation. Some spoilers after the jump.
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