[ATTENDED: October 3, 2017] “Let’s Play Two”
When S. and I went to the screening of Let’s Play Two, we never would have imagined that one year later we’d be seeing Pearl Jam in Wrigley Field as well.
This film is a few things, but primarily it is an exploration of Eddie Vedder’s passions. It is a showcase for Pearl Jam’s music. It is also a showcase for the Chicago Cubs.
This is not a concert film exactly. There are plenty of songs in the film, but they are interspersed with footage of the Cubs and of fans of locals and of Eddie touring Wrigley.
I don’t follow baseball, but I did when I was younger, and Wrigley is iconic. It was very cool to see all of the insider footage inside Wrigley when Eddie and the band are given a tour of the facility. I liked that it was cut with footage of a young Eddie talking about Wrigley and being a huge Cubs fan (in 1992, he took a piece of turf that was lying outside the stadium).
This film lovingly looks at Eddie’s obsession with the Cubs. The fact that Pearl Jam played Wrigley on August 20 and 22, just a few months before the Cubs won the World Series (November 3) is a wonderful dramatic tie in. [The fact that the giddiness of the win was shut down by the horrors of the 2016 election is very unfortunate]. (more…)
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