Review of Screwball

Screwball (2018)
1/10
A Low Life Documentary about Low Life People !!!
9 February 2022
I find the whole premise of this documentary to be Morally Repulsive. It's definitely NOT a video that I would allow a person under 18 to view because it is SO Morally Corrosive. EVERYONE in this story, including the "investigators", are portrayed as Low Class, Low Life People. There are NO Real Good Guys in this story, except perhaps for the Clueless Guy who inadvertently started the avalanche of publicity that revealed how everyone, including MLB officials themselves are Morally Reprehensible People. What makes this video even worse is the film maker's attempt to make light of it all by inserting kid actors to pantomime scenes in the story. That's clearly ironic because none of the characters portrayed in this Sick Tale should be any kid's idea of a Hero. Instead of making an Appropriate Moral Judgment about the behavior of the people involved, the film maker takes a. "c'est la vie" attitude toward the whole affair. This film maker had an excellent opportunity to make a strong moral statement about not only how Morally Phony MLB is, but all of American Society that deifies these Moral Miscreants in baseball uniforms. Instead this film delivers a Morally Ambiguous Message that even seems to leave open the question of the Morality of using steroids as an athlete. Plato said that he would ban all story tellers from his Republic because story tellers "corrupt the morals of the youth". Plato was no doubt thinking about Morally Corrosive Stories like the one offered in this Sick Excuse for a documentary.
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