The Garden of the Blind

This weekend, I saw what turned out to be one of the funniest movie trailers of recent memory. It was for a new film where Shia Labeouf (of Holes fame) plays a working class boy who is an incredibly gifted golfer. He manages to get himself in to a tournament that usually only allows members of what passes for gentry in this country. Barriers are broken. A plucky kid with a sharp tongue becomes his caddy (with hilarious results!). So far, it was just a typical Disney movie crossed with a typical sports movie (even if the “sport” is golf). Then, they dramatically revealed the title: “The Greatest Game Ever Played”. It took me about 5 minutes to stop laughing. I almost missed the start of the movie I had actually paid to see. Seriously, golf!? What where they thinking?