A few years ago I watched a movie with Miles Teller and Jonah Hill. The premise is that Teller — a massage therapist with a pregnant girlfriend — gets sucked into a lucrative but unethical business selling arms to the US government during the Iraq war. I didn’t finish the film, in part because the opening sequence irritated me to such an extent that it poisoned my view of the story. We meet Teller’s character after a business scheme fails and he is “reduced” to […]
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