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This shouldnt be that surprising considering that chess has always enjoyed a special, elevated place in the culture.
Let other sports rely on brawn and speed chess is about strategy and mental acuity.
Every contest is a battle of wits.
Who can resist the opportunity to show off how much smarter they are than their opponent?
Its tricky, but the following movies managed to pull it off.
We wont spoil what happens, but, well, lets just say that Skynet is coming.
His mind can only be visited, not truly understood.
Seeing how it worked out for him, thats a mercy.
(It was a massive hit there.)
You wont learn anything about chess, but you wont care.
Seeing it the second time, I realized that the actual outcome of the movie was being predicted.
And the case that chess is life has never been made more succinctly.
Its a much more personal movie.
Maybe thats whySearchingfeels less like a sports movie and more like a family drama and a character piece.
