WARNING: This article contains Large spoilers For "him".

Not every day to get a sports thematic horror movie, especially The one with the name of the producer Jordandan. Of course, there is no lack of interest in "him", mostly about how co-writer/director Justinatin Tiping will take over the comprehensive idea of ​​toxic football culture and turn it into an original horror story of one from the beginning of the athlete to sacrifice anything To make the big leagues. At the end of the day, it's more or less the movie we got ... Even if certain aspects are a little missing, AS /Film Chris Evangelista described in detail in his review. But one particularly fascinating aspect of this script has something to do with the biggest problem (so far) facing the sport in general.

"Him" is not a very narrative that prioritizes nonsense works as "subtlety" or "restraint" and it does not take long to realize that he has a lot of mind. But before the cover card appeared, the stimulus action cited the film's biggest thematic concern. After young defender Cameron Cade (Thirick Withers) has grown to idolize Starwell footballer Isaiah White (Marlon Vejans), the time has finally come to take his biggest step yet to break into the professional level. (Interestingly, the words "National Football League" are never mentioned or displayed on the screen at any moment ... probably for legal reasons, given less than portraying the movie of the sport.) But before he can even take his career out of the field, a curved fan in a shame.

Therefore, "he" is increasingly enhanced and hallucinative approach to KAM's trip to become the highest of all time. But even in the middle of a nightmare and bizarre image, a current thread remains clear. In the surroundings where athletes are routinely treated as goods and dehumanized, "he" points to the blame of two main culprits: team owners and fanbags.

For a film that can be and a physical manifestation of That "I know writers using a subtext" Mem"Him" takes a surprisingly careful and pretty daring look at what should be a controversial topic. There is a reason why universal paintings relied on the idea of ​​making this film's marketing campaign as a mix of Nike ads, guided through the Jordan -Conceptic Horror Filter. American football is like the most popular sport in North America, so Performing efforts to complain directly to the entire fanbase in order to reach the red zone of box office? It is just as clear and logical as it gets. But as soon as those buttons ended up in theater places, director Justinаstein Tiping and led to co-writers Zack Ackers and Skip Broncas pulled a little gearbox on them. It was fair to assume that the film like this does not have to have the most optimistic view of football culture. But what the audience might not have expected was a pretty direct warning story of how we engage, worship and profit from our favorite athletes.

"Him" does not only cover this through that early shocker that leads to football parts in the form of head lace and concussion, to raise, but also through its most prestigious and disturbing sub -conduct. When Kam agreed to save his attractive career by training with recreational (and soon to step down) Isaiah White for a week, he immediately enters the extremes of accident. Outside Isaiah's desert complex, a group of obsessive fans holding signs calling Isaiah "chosen" and sporting attack on the face of KAM's car, screaming vulgarities about how they do not "want". He is seen as a threat and potential replacement, and that makes him an enemy.

Most films would lower this just then and there, after they had already made a strong point. However, "He" is not like most movies, and this escalates to dramatic (and maybe hallucinated?) Confrontation as frightening as unexpected. The same fan (played by Naomi Grossman) and two accessories physically attacked KAM at a vulnerable moment, using an extreme example to make a prominent point. Especially with the breeding of betting on the Internet, it is easier than ever to show their worst. It is no coincidence that "he" brings such behavior to his logical conclusion.

But before someone is wrong "him" as a movie just For the most unusual fanatics there, the bloody final makes it obvious that the real blame for the biggest problem in the sport goes to the top. In the sunshine sequence where Kam comes out of Isaiah's training complex, covered with blood after fighting his (former) mentor to death, he is on a football field as if he was an open day of the NHL season. The owner of the rescuers (again, the subtlety is for cowards), the team who dreams of joining his entire life, sitting on the podium along with his agent Tom (Tim Heider) and a few other shaded figures - all wearing disturbing masks, some literally made of pigs. Since Isaiah's mysterious wife, Elsie (Iaulia Fox), calls on Kam to sign the intertwined line of life change and essentially teaches her autonomy as a person, something finally adheres and releases a bloodshed for centuries against those responsible for his suffering.

It does not take much creative license to see a movie set, which is almost organized as a auction of slaves and interpret this as a very strict metaphor for talented athletes (many of whom are colored people like CAM) who are subjected to the most prominent conditions that can be imagined. No, no one will cry for multimillionaire athletes who have made it to Ardwits and have their dreams come true ... But it does not deny the real problem of billionaires to use the whole advantage of this workforce and abuse them to make a hook. Isaiah can eventually take the role of antagonist against KAM to the end, but it is difficult to say that the real villains are (mostly white) men in power positions that have done all this possible in the first place. None of them had his prosperity in mind, but everyone was standing to profit from the talent and ability that far exceeds his own. This may not be as elegant racial metaphor as "go out" or "us", but "he" cannot be accused of having nothing in mind.

"Him" now plays in cinemas.