The defendant even compares himself to the protagonist of Mr. Kiarostami's "The Traveler" ("Mossafer, " 1974), about a boy so desperate to attend a soccer match that he steals and cheats.
It cuts between a small boy beating a bigger opponent in a soccer match, short versus tall players in a basketball game, a bear being scared off by a beaver and cartoon character Popeye punching Bluto into mid-air.