Champions evaluation action
2022-04-16 08:01
Although the film confuses the difference between the Paralympic Games and the Special Olympics, the concept of the Special Olympics - "every participant is a champion" - is well understood. It's hard to categorize this movie, it's not a sports movie in the general sense, and it's not a comedy movie in the general sense. Although the so-called "normal" is often used as a joke in the film, it is by no means a mockery of a specific person that appeared in previous Chinese cross talk sketches. To say that it is very inspirational, it is too high, to say that it is a bowl of "chicken soup for the soul", but some scenes in the film are also very "poisonous chicken soup". The good thing about the film is that it first admits that people with intellectual disabilities do have deficiencies in some aspects, but emphasizes that such deficiencies cannot be defined as the so-called "normal" and "abnormal"
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The film's deceptively titled, in fact, is not about honor, but about the sportsmanship of naive basketball players. Making a sports movie focusing on disabled people into a comedy is a test of the director's skills, but in this movie, every member of the disabled basketball team is portrayed with full personality
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Extended Reading
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Marco: My job is to train normal players. These guys aren't players, or normal.
Julio: And who is normal, Marco? Are you and I normal?
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Julio: What an honor that a professional like you is interested in working with a team like ours!
Marco: Interested isn't the word.
Julio: Neither is team.