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A good movie

This year (2024) has been so far rather disappointing regarding the movies. As usual, I try to watch 50 movies, I have reached 35 but nothing really blew me away so far and this movie was a pretty good example. Indeed, since it was apparently well received and since it was available on Disney+, I thought I might as well check it out but, to be honest, even though it turned out to be a decent watch, it wasn’t really much more than that. It was basically a similar story to ‘Nyad’ which was released last year and, even if it was slightly better, I can’t say it was really impressive though. The fact that they took some liberties with what actually happened probably didn’t help. For example, women have been a part of the Olympic swim program since 1912 and American women have been going to the Olympics for swimming since 1920 where they won several gold medals. Even Trudy Ederle brought back a gold medal when she came back from the 1924 Paris Olympics when, in the movie, her campaign was described as a complete failure. She also didn’t swim right away for her 2nd attempt and there was actually a year between both attempts. Sure, I’m not saying that such true tales are not allowed to deviate from what actually happened. However, in this case, the whole idea was to show how discriminated women were at the time but, after all these alterations, I’m not sure how true it really was. Still, there is no denying that it was a really inspiring tale, Trudy Ederle was an impressive women, apparently a much better swimmer than most men at the time and Daisy Ridley delivered here a really solid performance, probably her best so far. Anyway, to conclude, even if it was nothing really groundbreaking, I have to admit that it was not bad at all and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre. 

7/10
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Added by johanlefourbe
2 weeks ago on 26 October 2024 17:09