But at a longish 2
hours and 14 minutes, the movie never gets to addressing what happened to Owens after the 1936 Olympics, other
than a quick rundown
of the fate
of the main characters (Owens remained with girlfriend, then wife Ruth Solomon
until his death in 1980, the movie tells us, and the
couple had two
more children).
In fact
more than down, the caffeine gives me a buzz I won't lose for a
couple of hours until we're finally sitting in Las Tradiciones restaurant in the Costa Verde neighborhood downtown Veracruz chowing down on steaming hot ground beef and potato empanadas and drinking cold beers in the pouring rain.