“Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game” tells the true (or nearly true) story of a pinball fanatic and his effort to play the game in New York City in the mid-1970s—a time when it was illegal to do so.
I wanted to write this review as soon as possible after seeing the movie, in order to preserve my favorable impressions and before making the logical queries that could risk dispelling them. I’d recommend not scrutinizing “Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game” too closely or too promptly, and simply savoring the unusual spectrum of artistic virtues that I found myself admiring—and admiring again, on a second viewing, purely for pleasure.
Roger goes to New York to become a writer, tries his hand at novels, takes a job in advertising, yearns to write for a living, and, at twenty-five, gets hired at as a life-style journalist. In his spare time, he longs to play pinball but finds no tables anywhere—except illicit ones in a storefront porn shop, which he therefore begins to frequent solely to play pinball.
“Pinball” is a journalistic movie and a metajournalistic one. Roger’s reporting provides the film with its factual backbone. Mr. Sharpe tells the story of the younger Roger’s investigations and conjures his interview subjects and the various people he encountered in his explorations, in his writing of an article on pinball and then in his expansion of it into a book, with a fervent energy that the Braggs replicate in their vivid portrayal of them.
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