Legends never die: See perfect summer movie ‘The Sandlot’ for free in Fort Greene Park

Don’t be an L7 weenie: Go see The Sandlot for free. What I love about The Sandlot is that it’s a movie about how stories of childhood told through the eyes of an adult are filtered through the thin vaseline of nostalgic distortion, something we’re all guilty of using. This is why the story of a bunch of kids playing ball on an empty lot is suffused with hyperbolic events and characters out of proportion. The neighbor’s dog, Hercules, was never truly that big and monstrous, the fence never really that towering; Benny was a star of the friend group but rode to levels of mythic neighborhood hero on amplified waves of reverence for someone who loomed so large in their imaginations. When you’re a kid and your world is the neighborhood, even the next yard over seems like a vast unexplored chasm of unchartered territory. You look back and think, man, everything was so big then. The Sandlot is the perfect summer… Read More

Legends never die: See perfect summer movie ‘The Sandlot’ for free in Fort Greene Park : Brokelyn