Living Through What Feels Like "The Barkley Marathons: The Race that Eats its Young"

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I hope everyone reading is safe, healthy, and having a nice weekend.

We're back for another attempt to write a brief movie review!

Today's entry:

"The Barkley Marathons: The Race that Eats its Young" (2014)

This is a documentary about one of the most brutal trail races in the world.  While extreme sports generally do very little for me, this movie gave me exactly what I wanted: a study of all the bizarre ins and outs of this race, including a peak into the extremely selective application process, the origins of the race, the old-school,  low-tech ways in which runners have to account for their completion of the track, and the community of arguably completely unhinged athletes who insist on subjecting themselves to a race that is explicitly designed to be an ordeal of excruciating physical exertion.  I would have expected to have very little patience for Lazarus Lake, the main officiant and manager of the Barkley, but his odd, idiosyncratic, and admittedly sadistic sense of creativity and humor are actually strangely appealing.  This was an enjoyable and interesting watch!

I gave this movie a 4.

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