Winning is not the ultimate goal

Claude 2022-04-19 09:01:45

I thought it was a sports inspirational movie, but after watching it, I found that the film expresses far more than the topic of sports, but also has a noble will to save lives and redeem children. Reminds me of "Dead Poets Society", the good movie that once made me cry.

Basketball has been my love for many years, and I can deeply feel the tense atmosphere in the film. The wonderful showdowns, comebacks, lore and other good scenes are also staged. The coach's coaching method is also unique. First, the rules are established before the teachers and students are discussed. The role of the coach's son is a bit superfluous, too deliberately arranged, and sometimes you don't even feel the father-son relationship.

The short-sighted team members and some of their parents, the principal who is in the interest of the immediate interests, represent the secular faction. They believe that winning can solve problems, winning can get honors, and winning can be crazy to show off and open a party. But the coach didn't think so. He was thinking about the children's future, how to let them enter the college campus, avoid repeating the mistakes of their fathers, follow the old path of his former friends, and ruin his own life. I think this is a good coach who really cares about the students and really wants to help them. But it is often that kindness cannot be fully understood, because to do better requires more hard work and sacrifices more time to enjoy the worldly joys. This pain cannot be endured by all people, but those who have endured the pain can Taste the sweetness of the long-term future. Giving and rewarding are completely disproportionate at some point, because a little can be rewarded infinitely, but not everyone realizes this.

If you have youth, you will be rebellious. Fortunately, you can meet an elder who can change your paranoid, radical, and short-sighted vision, and you can grasp the future and avoid becoming inferior in society.

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Coach Carter quotes

  • Coach Ken Carter: Well let me tell you what I see, I see a system, that is designed for you to fail, now I know that all of you like stats so let me give you some, Richmond high only graduates 50% of it's students, and of those that do graduate only 6% go to college, Which tells me when I walk down these halls and look in your class rooms, maybe only one student is going to go to college, Well damn Coach Carter if I ain't going to college where am I going to go? Well that's a great question and the answer for young African-American men in here is this, probably to prison, in this county 33% of black males between 18-24 get arrested, so look at they guy on your left, now look at the guy on your right, one of you is going to get arrested, growing up here in Richmond you're 80% more likely to go to prison than college, those are the numbers, those are some stats for ya ass, now I want you to go home and look at your life's tonight, look at your parents lives, and ask yourself do I want better, if the answer is yes I'll see you here tomorrow, and I promise you, I'll do everything in my power to get you to college, and to a better life.

  • Principal Garrison: Your intentions are good, Mr. Carter, but your methods are a bit extreme.

    Coach Ken Carter: You painted an extreme picture. No one expects these kids to graduate, no one expects them to go to college.

    Principal Garrison: So you take away basketball, the one area of their lives where they have some success?

    Coach Ken Carter: Yes, ma'am.

    Principal Garrison: And you challenge them academically?

    Coach Ken Carter: Yes, ma'am!

    Principal Garrison: And if they fail?

    Coach Ken Carter: Then WE've failed!

    Principal Garrison: Unfortunately, Mr. Carter, both you and I know that for some of these kids, this basketball season will be the highlight of their lives.

    Coach Ken Carter: Well, I think that's the problem. Don't you?