The documentaries I listed are a huge inspiration. More exercise and drinking water would be a great first step. I try to follow a healthy lifestyle, although I have a lot of room to improve. To me, health is important, because I'm a diabetic. This is equal to 3 pounds (or 6 cups) of sugar consumed in one week! According to a survey of the DHHS health and human services department of America, an average American eats 152 pounds of sugar each year.
If we can control it, then 70 per cent of our health issues will be resolved automatically. Sugar is the most vital part of our majority of the food items. Usually, various health awareness campaigns run to uplift living standards and educate people about sugar and the food buy and eat. A diabetic as me is much more sensitive to the intake of sugar and without the right medication it can certainly be deadly. Like, in a limited amount, sugar is a lifesaver in the form of glucose and gives us power, but when we have too much, it can kill any person, slowly. Health is for a big part directly related to the food we eat. Note: The R rating is for relatively inconsequential reasons.Health is a gift but sometimes we don't give it proper attention. Algenis Perez Soto plays the character so openly, so naturally, that an interesting thing happens: Baseball is only the backdrop, not the subject. For them this film is a chapter in the more interesting story of the lifetime Sugar has ahead of him. The filmmakers are too observant to settle for a quick, conventional payoff. Whether this happens for Sugar, or how it might happen, you will see for yourself. Boden and Fleck are interested in newcomers to this country, doing what they can to make a living and succeed. The true subject of "Sugar" is the immigrant experience in America. He finds the farm system is supportive, and he gets help from coaches who care, but there is always another player waiting behind him in line.Īnna Boden and Ryan Fleck, who wrote and directed "Sugar," are serious filmmakers who have no desire to make a "sports movie." They've obviously done their research on the Major League farm system and the men who pass through it at some level, this entire tryout process is for the benefit of a fan in the grandstands with a wise-ass opinion about the "new kid." Remembering a day when Sammy Sosa was booed at Wrigley Field, I see it now in a wholly new light. On their regular phone calls, his mother fears she can sense something troubling in his voice. On the team, he bonds with Jorge ( Rayniel Rufino), a more seasoned player from the Dominican Republic, and Brad Johnson ( Andre Holland), who is the same color but from a different world if baseball doesn't pan out, he'll go back for an advanced degree from Stanford.įor Sugar, who mumbles he's had "a little" high school, everything depends on baseball panning out. There is also the presence of their granddaughter Anne ( Ellary Porterfield), who sends out mixed messages she's obviously attracted to him and invites him to meet her friends, evangelicals who would like to get him on board. ("You've been dropping your arm," Helen tells him, and Sugar doesn't disagree.)
He finds himself boarding in the friendly Iowa farm home of Helen and Earl Higgins ( Ann Whitney and Richard Bull), who have taken in a generation of new players for the local farm club.
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Sugar isn't "torn with conflict," as movie ads like to say, but weighed with worry.
What's special about the film - and this is a very special film - is how closely it observes the emotional uncertainties of a stranger in a strange land, not speaking the language, not knowing the customs, beset with homesickness and the dread of disappointing his family.Īlgenis Perez Soto, a young baseball player in his acting debut, embodies Sugar with a natural sincerity. If very few players ever make it into a Major League starting lineup, well, they know that going in. Baseball seems, in fact, a friendly if realistic destination, an income where there was none before. "Sugar" isn't filled with melodramatic developments and a hard landing on U.S. For years, their dreams have been filled with visions of big-time baseball. American teams maintain elaborate Dominican training facilities, send talent scouts to local leagues and keep recruits under close watch: Room and board is provided, there are security guards to enforce discipline, the kids get a few days off once in a while. The film is knowledgeable about how the system works.
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