In the final innings of the day
Quarter of midnight, just when you begin to wonder if your Outlook is broken, if the neighborhood out the windows got quiet for any decent reason, if the Out of Order sign fell off your phone, placed there when you were by the stove or with your head in the laundry machines, the phone buzzes lightly, and your luck on the evening begins to change.
Quarter after midnight, you restart the movie that's carried your night, with the plot slower and the themes looser than you'd like. But it turns the remaining scenes are some of the best. In a baseball movie that's a meditation on loneliness, the final section is more upbeat than what precedes, but better, the storytelling finds focus. While other watchers debate the choice of music, "unnecessary at best" or giving the song "whole new life," a Spanish-language Hallelujah cover works for you.
