I get sad every time I remember that Dostoyevsky died too early to see the modern existential cinematic masterpiece "Air Bud 2: Golden Receiver".
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While the original Air Bud, a masterpiece in its own right, explored individual existential freedom, particularly with its famous quote "there is nothing in the rules that says a dog CAN'T play basketball" – a meditation on how no rule can override our innate freedom...
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Air Bud 2: Golden Receiver reaches a true artform, by exploring not just the individual angst of grappling with freedom under modernity, but showing what authentic engagement in a free community might look like.
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me and my sister used to religiously watch airbud every single friday night for years and just reading that line still makes me tear up a little
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I rewatched it recently and was a little surprised by how much hard hitting emotional family drama was going on in between the dog-playing-basketball scenes.
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I never really saw Air Bud, but i saw the end in a laundromat in Brokklyn where many different kinds of people were represented, and every last person was transfixed by that ending. It was almost religious
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Babe (1995): WE FIND THERE IS NO RULE, AS SUCH, WHICH WOULD PREVENT YOUR... ANIMAL... BEING ENTERED. Referring to using a pig in a sheepdog competition.
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