Fútbol en el cine: Fever Pitch

Fever Pitch (1997)
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Football has meant too much to me, and has come to represent too many things. See, after a while, it all gets mixed up together in your head, and you can't remember whether life is shit 'cause Arsenal is shit or the other way 'round. I've been to watch far too many games, spent too much money...fretted about Arsenal when I should've been fretting about something else. I've asked too much to the people I love.

OK, I accept all that...but...perhaps it's something you can't understand unless you belong.

What about this?: Three minutes to go, and you're 2-1 up in the semifinal. You look around and see all those thousands of faces contorted with fear and hope and worry. Everyone lost. Everything gone out of their heads.

Then the whistle blows and everyone goes spare...And just for a few minutes you're at the center of the whole world. And the fact that you care so much that the noise you've made has been such a crucial part of it all is what makes it special, 'cause you've been every bit as important as the players. And if you hadn't beaten them, who would've thought about football in the first place?

The great thing is that it comes around again and again. There is always another season. Lose the Cup final in May, well, there's the third round to look forward to in January. What's wrong with that? It's actually pretty comforting if you think about it.

No voy a decir mucho, pero esta es la película definitiva para cualquier fanático futbolero. Basada en la novela homónima de Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy) y con la actuación de Colin Firth (Bridget Jones' Diary) como Paul Ashworth, un fanático del Arsenal que tiene que decidir entre seguir siéndolo y...bueno, tener una vida. Les apuesto lo que quieran a que se identificarán con él en algún momento. Además cuenta con tremenda banda sonora. Véanla y luego me dicen. Si no pueden conseguirla en internecc, me avisan para cruzarles el disco.