![]() ![]() Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Truman Capote was profligately articulate Brad Pitt’s baseball executive communicated clearly in words, stats and caroming body English. The difference is in Foxcatcher‘s strange, bold muteness. Soon they will explode.ĭirector Bennett Miller’s third feature blends the themes of his previous films: the complementary psyches of killer and journalist in Capote and sports as a nexus of genius and roughhouse in Moneyball. amateur wrestling history to have won both Olympic and world championships, sign up with Team Foxcatcher, run by John Éleuthère du Pont (Steve Carell), heir to the gunpowder and chemicals fortune. These atavistic impulses start simmering when Mark (Channing Tatum) and Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo), the only brothers in U.S. It follows that Foxcatcher is an investigation of men less comfortable in speaking than in expressing themselves through physical activity that can turn violent. Wrestling is the most elemental of sports: one man grappling another in intimate combat. ![]()
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