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“Hey let’s play catch, Dad,” says Kevin Costner to his magic ghost dad at the end of Field Of Dreams. “I love you, son,” the Dad says to Kevin Costner. Or something. That’s not verbatim but it’s basically like that. It doesn’t really matter that it’s not verbatim, though, because any way ya slice it, guess what? The whole “fathers approving of their sons” crap is classic silver-screen BS.
There’s a reason that Field Of Dreams is in the FICTION section, and not just because ghosts of dead baseball players come back and play baseball in a cornfield – it’s also because fathers never approve of their sons in real life. Sound bitter? Try reading a psychiatry textbook for once, or better yet, I don’t even need to do that, because I read a very interesting textbook called MY REAL LIFE. No one ever plays catch in this textbook – instead, the dad’s always like “Dan, are you still making those stupid lists of things in movies that bother you? How bout you get a real job, you friggin pussy? No wonder Coryn left you for your roommate Mike.” He doesn’t say those exact words but that’s basically what “How’s everything going?” means, when he says it in THAT voice. Ughhhh you HAVE to hear this voice he uses, and you’d know what I’m talking about. You could practically make all these movie dads into Ewoks and they’d be more believable. Yeesh. Buncha Ewok dads.
