“ LFG”评论：当美国女子国家足球队接任其雇主时，带出Vuvuzelas
‘LFG’ Review: Bring Out the Vuvuzelas as the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team Takes on Its Employer
来自美国女子全国足球队即兴即兴演奏的少数球员关于LFG的字母（他们的集会呼喊）的准确。从杰西卡·麦克唐纳（Jessica McDonald）到萨曼莎·梅维斯（Samantha Mewis）到凯利·奥哈拉（Kelley O’Hara）到梅根·拉普尼奥（Megan Rapinoe）到贝基·萨伯伦（Becky Sauerbrunn）的获胜和及时的“ LFG”的特写镜头流动。只是，尽管如此，尽管如此，他们也有一个重点代表了四届世界杯胜利者。现在在HBO Max首映后播放HBO Max，导演Andrea Nix Fine和Sean Fine实际上引人注目的是毫无疑问的，在他们之后毫无疑问地跟随他们的团队。对其雇主，美国足球联合会提起诉讼。一路上（这是为专业女运动员支付股权的很长一段路），车队在场上踢了一些球和一些屁股，然后在冠状病毒大流行中吹嘘，因为他们向他们的索赔要求公平补偿。该纪录片为他们的团队多出色提供了有力的理由。 WHIle“ LFG”并没有透露难以捉摸的食谱，它吹嘘一名队友称之为该小组的“特殊调味料”。电影制片人从团队中获得了惊人的机会 - 全部28人 - 当他们和律师所接受的情况下美国足球联合会因其对胜利的女子团队的不平等对待而与其卑鄙的男子团队相比。并不是说是赢得胜利或受欢迎程度。 （这些球员缝制了。）这是关于歧视的。联邦的口号是“一个国家。一个团队”，但薪酬和工作条件大大凝结了。“ LFG”是在2019年3月的国际妇女节启动诉讼之后，通过调解到2020年5月的联邦法院法官的裁决。将有胜利和挫折 - 还有一些非常非常漫长的日子。宣布诉讼时，球队在争夺第四届世界杯冠军的比赛中已经三个月了。在拥挤的体育场的电视录像中捕获了彩绘的脸 - 导演制作了一个文档，可以在视觉上嬉戏地弹出。 “ LFG”采用了车队，色彩鲜艳的图形（通过工会社论），在表明这种补偿和福利的不平等方面得分。这部电影的能量浪潮 - 在田野上削减了风格的访谈，有时是神经媒体的表现 - 直到大流行减慢事物并迫使董事像我们许多人一样胜任远程视频。即使那样，“ LFG”也具有力量。电影制片人还可以做更多的事情，以将同等薪水的斗争置于职业运动中的较大女性背景下，触及网球巡回赛和WNBA上发生的事情，以及体育运动所发生的事情大生意。没有这样做更强大。这些运动员的故事及其对法律斗争的奉献精神涵盖了这些运动员和更广泛的社会斗争。国王的个人故事，主要是麦当劳和拉皮诺的故事。一位单身母亲，前锋杰西卡·麦克唐纳（Jessica McDonald）瞥见了成为一名好父母和顶级竞争的挑战，即Rapinoe，前锋已成为世界上最知名的女运动员之一。摄像机跟随她在CNN和MSNBC上露面，并与WNBA明星Sue Bird（两者都订婚）一起拍摄了Glamour和ESPY奖。但这是她对她和她的哥哥采取的不同道路的想法，这使她令人信服地瞥见了她作为社会正义的倡导者的吸引力。她说，她的成功和名望以及他与成瘾的斗争包括“真正的美国故事”。尽管她最近在Twitter上被要求进行种族评论，但在这里她对班级，种族和性别的理解表现出持续的细微差别。在有这些世界杯胜利者之前，还有一支传奇的团队，与Mia Hamm，Brandi Chastain，ET， al。在“ LFG！”之前那里是“ GFY”，这是一个吸引人的朱莉·福迪（Julie Foudy）股票的含义。 Foudy是EPSN评论员和这两届世界杯冠军球队的成员，证明了与这两个球队的聪明联系。他们赢得了第四次世界杯后，一首歌开始在看台上，在演出中重复出现。参加五彩纸屑游行和仪式。 “同等工资，同等薪水，同等薪水”的音节听起来像是在大喊，“美国，美国，美国”。当Rapinoe参加迈克（Mike）参加这场庆祝活动时，她很亲切：她并不是要让美国足球脱离钩子，而是在当时的联邦总裁卡洛斯·科迪耶罗（Carlos Cordiero）上轻松。好像她说：“读房间，卡洛斯。”“如果我不认为我们能赢得胜利，我就不会接受诉讼。”凯斯勒坐在会议室里的桌子后面，在“杰里·马奎尔（Jerry Maguire）”中带给了Mind Mind Agent Mensch Dicky Fox。即使不是，框架也会有意。凯斯勒的法律图特拉格中的某些东西E强调了战斗的道德权利。过去的星期一，最高法院将大学运动的理事机构NCAA递给了NCAA，这是一致失败的，他对学生运动员的薪酬做出了具有里程碑意义的决定。该诉讼的首席律师是凯斯勒（Kessler）。它的同等薪水立场 - 明确指出，这不是一个人的行动，而是最高级的女性努力，而团队领导了这一指控。
A handful of players from the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team riff on what the letters LFG — their rallying cry — stand for exactly. The flow of close-ups in the winning and timely doc “LFG,” from Jessica McDonald to Samantha Mewis to Kelley O’Hara to Megan Rapinoe to Becky Sauerbrunn, has the feel of a pre-match kick around. Only, for all their ease, there’s also a focus that epitomizes the four-time World Cup victors.
Now streaming on HBO Max after its Tribeca Festival premiere, directors Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine’s factually compelling, unapologetically smitten film follows the team after they file a lawsuit against their employer, the U.S. Soccer Federation, for equal pay. Along the way (and it’s a long way to pay equity for professional female athletes), the team kicks some balls and some butt on the field, then weathers the coronavirus pandemic, as they press their claim for fair compensation. The documentary makes a strong case for just how remarkable a team they are. While “LFG” doesn’t divulge the elusive recipe, it ladles what one teammate called the group’s “special sauce.”
The filmmakers gained a striking amount of access from the team — all 28 of them — as they and their lawyers took on the U.S. Soccer Federation for its unequal treatment of its winning women’s team compared with its underwhelming men’s team. Not that the case is about winning — or popularity. (These players have that sewn up.) It’s about discrimination. The federation’s slogan is “One Nation. One Team,” but the compensation and working conditions are dramatically cockeyed.
“LFG” follows the litigation from its International Women’s Day launch in March 2019 through mediation to a ruling from a federal court judge in May 2020. There will be wins and setbacks — and some very, very long days. When the suit was announced, the team was three months out from competing for a fourth World Cup title.
Perhaps mindful of the team’s legion of young fans — girls and boys with painted faces captured in TV footage of crowded stadiums — the directors have made a doc that pops visually, playfully. “LFG” employs fleet, colorful graphics (by Union Editorial), scoring points in showing how unequal that compensation and benefits can be. The film rides waves of energy — cutting on the field highlights with personable interviews and sometimes nervous media appearances — until the pandemic slows things and forces the directors to resort, like so many of us did, to remote video. And even then, “LFG” has power.
The filmmakers could have done more to place the fight for equal pay within the larger context of women in professional sports, touching on what’s happening on the tennis circuit and the WNBA and what’s happening to sport as big business. It’s stronger for not having done so. The story of these athletes and their dedication to the legal fight encompasses those and broader societal struggles.
Instead of going too big, “LFG” goes intimate, breaking out personal stories, chiefly those of McDonald and Rapinoe. A single mom, forward Jessica McDonald offers a glimpse at the challenges of being a good parent and top-flight, underpaid competitor.
As for Rapinoe, the forward has become one of the most recognizable female athletes in the world. The camera follows her to appearances on CNN and MSNBC, to a cover shoot for Glamour and the Espy Awards with WNBA star Sue Bird (the two are engaged). But it’s her thoughts about the divergent paths she and her older brother took that offers a convincing glimpse of her appeal as an advocate for social justice. Her success and fame and his struggles with addiction comprise “the true American story,” she says. Although she’s recently been called out on Twitter for a racial comment, here she displays an ongoing nuance in her understanding of class, race and gender.
Before there were these World Cup victors, there was the legendary team with Mia Hamm, Brandi Chastain, et al. Before “LFG!” there was “GFY,” the crass meaning of which an appealing Julie Foudy shares. The EPSN commentator and a member of that two-time World Cup-winning team, Foudy proves a smart link to both teams — and both moments.
After they win their fourth World Cup, a chant starts up in the stands that are repeated during the to the confetti parade and ceremony. “Equal Pay, Equal Pay, Equal Pay,” the syllables of which sound like they’re shouting, “U.S.A., U.S.A., U.S.A.” When Rapinoe takes the mike at that celebration, she is gracious to a point: She’s not about to let U.S. Soccer off the hook but goes easy on then-federation president, Carlos Cordiero. It’s as if she says, “Read the room, Carlos.”
“If I didn’t think we could win, I wouldn’t have taken on the lawsuit,” says lead attorney Jeffrey Kessler early on. Sitting behind a table in a conference room, Kessler brings to mind agent-mensch Dicky Fox in “Jerry Maguire.” The framing feels intentional, even if it isn’t. Something in Kessler’s legal tutelage underscores the ethical rightness of the fight.
This past Monday, the Supreme Court handed the governing body of college sports, the NCAA, a unanimous defeat with a landmark decision about compensation for student athletes. The lead lawyer for that suit was none other than Kessler.
Co-counsel Cardelle Spangler as well as team spokeswoman and public relations executive Molly Levinson — who gets teary reading an astonishing full-page ad from Secret deodorant celebrating the team and making no secret of its stance on equal pay — make it clear that this is no one-man operation but a superlative women’s endeavor, with the team leading the charge.
本文资料/文案来自网络，如有侵权，请联系我们删除。
|
发表于 2022-7-5 07:57:16
发表于 2022-10-5 05:42:13