Field of Dreams Movie Download

10 / 10

“I have just created something totally illogical”.
It’s a little hard to explain why this film affects me the way it does. For other posters on this board as well as myself, the story really doesn’t have much to do with baseball per se. It has all to do with one’s relationship with family, and more notably, a father that one wishes he had a better relationship with. Not that mine was bad, but looking back on it now, it could have been so much better. The blame goes both ways, and I don’t recall ever having a conversation with him that lasted more than a couple of sentences. I would ask him about the war (WW II), and he would shrug it off as if his story wouldn’t matter. Now that he’s gone, I find myself visiting his grave and spending more time talking to him now than I ever did back when he was around. So even though I can sit here and choke back some emotion as I write this, it’s all but impossible to do so when Ray Kinsella sees his dad unbuckling the shin guards and the flash of recognition hits him. I think back almost fifty years ago to the time when I would have a catch with my dad, never even thinking back then what it would be like when he wouldn’t be around anymore. And then I think about my own boys, and have to consider if when they watch this movie, they might wonder the same things about me.

I know this is supposed to be a movie review, but you’ll have to cut me some slack. The above is pretty much all I want to say here, besides recommending the film for it’s own sake. It’s story telling at it’s finest, mixing elements of fantasy and reality in a wonderful way, and laying it all out there for the baseball kid in all of us. We all have our own idea of what heaven might be like, and the movie reminds us that it might be a pretty good idea to take a few good practice swings while we’re still here.Read More