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Message: [QUOTE="Cuseregular, post: 2567357, member: 185"] This was a powerful and emotionally gut wrenching experience watching this movie. It's well worth watching and is brutally uncompromising in every respect from the graphic content of what's occurred to the treatment of all involved parties. The Jobots and PSU heads in the sand fans will not be happy. And that's good. It's almost like a historical recreation of the horror of the whole God awful situation and that's good too since I think it's going to be looked at down the road as a documentary look at the the nightmare that was Gerry Sandusky and Paterno who ultimately in the end analysis was Sanduskys enabler. This movie makes it clear it wasn't because he was unwilling. Clueless perhaps if ones being charitable not to perhaps completely understand the horrific gravity of it all, but culpable in the end analysis nonetheless. And that's where the whole tragedy of this all gets, if it's even possible, it gets worse. His legacy could've and perhaps should've been so positive if not for this God awful miscreant of a person who ruined so many lives with his unspeakable perversions. The movie went to great lengths to explain Paternos contributions to things that can be seen as positive from funding buildings to emphasizing citizenship and education among his players to help create good people post graduation, all this in addition to obviously being a good football coach. That should have been it. But no. His combination of willful ignorance and arrogance were his fatal flaws. Unforgivable. Period. And now that is his forever legacy more than anything else. As anyone who knows me from this board knows this is somewhat personal for me. Somewhat. A personal dissappointment to some extent to see a childhood personal hero unmasked and exposed. I've posted many times on here now my profound disappointment as well as my burning of my recruitment letter from PSU from back in the day. But I've never spoke of the content before and this is a testament to the contradiction of the man as I saw it. The long and the short of it was that after some initial interest I wasn't good enough at the time to merit a scholarship offer, and should try as a walk on. Now any administative support staff from PSU, any assistant or recruiting coordinator, etc. could've written and signed or stamped this obviously individualized letter, but Paterno clearly signed it himself. It doesn't show much, except to say a total self absorbed narcissist likely wouldn't do this to give a crap about some recruit not even good enough to be offered. And not that it matters for much as his fatal flaws and negatives now will be what he's remembered for more than anything. But I share to give a complete picture here in our little world and the movie does a good job of painting this nuanced conflicting portrait as well. Had it sugar coated the atrocities and his culpability in how things played out, then I'd not reccomend seeing it. But it is uncompromising and brutally explicit in all related matters, is profoundly moving and flies by as a result of all that. It will make you mad and it will make you sad. It is a very worth while viewing. [/QUOTE]

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