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X O Good, but so sad. Saying that one's kids are safe means everyone is safe is stupid. Kids of the family are different to wrestlers they have no connection to family. Du Pont should've been committed long before. But that's police. No one cares until it is too late. A valuable life lost due to the entitled stupidity wealth buys. And that stupid girl is sad no one mourned Du Pont's passing. Blame your family btch. Who else should care? Fck the dumbass. Good riddance. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Such a bizarre guy. Pretty average documentary but I enjoyed it more than the movie Foxcatcher. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review georgan g Having seen the movie made about this situation, I didn't learn lots more from the documentary. Sad to see the haunted eyes of someone without a friend in the world but loads of money. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member The documentary Team Foxcatcher did an excellent job of portraying the real and tragic sequence of events that ultimately led to Dave Schultz' demise. I think that many viewers failed to appreciate how well the film portrayed the relationships of everyone living on the farm, including the relationship between Schultz and John DuPont. Most of the wrestlers that were interviewed for the film believed that at one point Schultz was closest to DuPont among the wrestlers. They did an excellent job of using the home footage provided to them as well as the interviews to show how the farm truly could have been a sports utopia for everyone living there if it weren't for the downward spiral of John DuPont. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member As I analyzed the reviews on the documentary of Team Foxcatcher, I noticed that the reviewers did a poor job of appreciating the sound (background music) during the film. The tone of the music played a major role in each scene of the documentary. For instance, in the beginning of the film the background music is soft and charming as it shows how the du Pont family was equivalent to a royal family in Pennsylvania. The uplifting music also highlighted how John was a fit human being who was into sports, but most importantly was a role model for others. The film then progressed into a calm and peaceful tone of music as it revealed John's aesthetically pleasing million dollar wrestling facility that he built along with his 2,000 acre farm. John gave his wrestlers a paradise compared to what they had before and they were greatly appreciative. The music then shifted from calm to suspenseful when John drove his car into the pond two times because it was the beginning of a series of abnormal behavior from him. As the film went on, there were no longer any charming sounds, the music was purely sharp and dark. As John showed his athletes the video of the woods and emphasized that there are objects moving, there begins to be a sharp sound effect. The music here stressed that this was not a joke and that John was actually going insane. As the film continued, there were deep and eerie sounds effects as the athletes were describing John's imaginations that he saw. Some of these included Dave Schultz being in his walls, tunnels going in and out of his mansion, and thinking Dave was able to control the weather. From here, the music then transitioned into a mysterious sound because John thought the color black signifies death. As a result, people began to view him as a racist since he started to get rid of everything colored black, including kicking African American wrestlers off his team. For the remainder of the film, when John was being spoken about or displayed in the picture the music was dark and sad. Towards the end of the film, he showed his worst signs of how mentally unstable he was. Thus, this corresponded with the darkest sound effects being utilized in the film. Overall, the tone of the music throughout the film leads the viewer into either a delightful scene or a dark and peculiar one. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member The documentary, Team Foxcatcher, captivates you and its audience with different traits of films and technique. Many of the reviewers of this documentary I felt missed major components of the documentary the director uses to disperse certain feelings throughout the film. The director has a great use of music and background audio to install certain feelings into the viewer. The music institutes feelings of peace the entire 1st half of the documentary. The music created a prosperous attitude throughout the first half hour and ensured to the viewer the great things that went on with Foxcatcher and John Du Pont. The music also helped for the change of mood and outlook toward John Du Pont as he progressively got worse. The shift in mood and music brought the documentary from a prosperous attitude to a sinister-like situation. The music installed a creepiness around John Du Pont and the radical things he started doing. The downward spiral of his sanity was supported through a progressive ramp up of music and eerie silence at moments. The director utilized real films of John Du Pont to support the creepiness of his personality as well. Where the wrestling families would be together the film would single out John Du Pont lurking in the background. There was a mysteriousness brung up from the filming of John Du Pont. At times when John Du Pont in interviews, the director made sure to include times when John had not been asked a question and he was free to say what came into his head. The utter nonsense John Du Pont would say added to the creepiness of him. As the documentary went on with more and more filmings of John Du Pont alone and sulking to himself, the focus of the documentary seemed to zero in on him. This focus on John brought the suspense of the film for when his mental state would finally snap. The viewer at this point was waiting for the final breaking point of John Du Pont. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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