TIME Magazineさんのインスタグラム写真 - (TIME MagazineInstagram)「For a writer-director-actor who’s had every chance to sit on top of the world, few have cultivated an aura of pathos like Ben Affleck. Yet somehow, in spite of his woebegone spirit or because of it, he has become one of the most reliably valuable directors we’ve got, as well as an actor whose performances consistently range from good to low-key great. #Air, Ben Affleck’s fifth movie as a director — and now streaming on Amazon Prime — may sound like a bore if you don’t care about business, basketball, or athletic shoes. But Affleck uses classic stealth means to make you care. It’s 1984 and Matt Damon stars as Sonny Vaccaro, a middle-aged businessguy in need of a hit, finds himself against a wall: he’s having trouble finding a young, up-and-coming basketball player to represent Nike products. Many of the names he and his colleagues float have been all but forgotten today, but one keeps coming up: the company would love to have a rookie named Michael Jordan wear their shoes, but he’s already promised his allegiance to another company, Adidas. We already know Affleck is a good director. But we’ve also seen him at his lowest, contemplating his worth as a man and finding it wanting. Then he comes out and makes a casually superb little movie, almost as if it were no big deal to do so. At the link in bio, find out why we don’t deserve Ben Affleck. Photograph by Ana Carballosa—Prime」5月13日 0時00分