White has suffered repeated failures and came to McFarland, an agricultural town inhabited by Mexicans in the west. There are too many places like this in the world. They have had glory, and maybe they have never even mentioned people and things. Now they are mediocre, but The foreseen future will also be mediocre. There are too many ordinary people like White, and most of them are ordinary students under his command. They grow vegetables - marry a wife and have children - children's life of growing vegetables is justified, and there is no other way. Coach White has no charisma, and the coaching job at McFarland High School was the only job he found after being repeatedly fired. It's not that the ability is not crowded, but the character is cold. When he was young, such a man was like a firefly in the dark, standing out from the crowd, but in a middle-aged coach, he was like a stone in a ditch. No wonder the director chose Kevin Costner to play White, "Dancing With Wolves", showing his arrogance.
Qiji needs Bole to complete it, but without a good horse, Bole is only a good dragon slayer. The sturdy and dark Latin peasants who work in the fields every day are good seedlings of sports, but unfortunately they are in an isolated island of information, facing the loess and turning their backs to the sky, and can't see the possibility brought by sports; White is just a football player. A professional coach and a frustrated, somewhat authoritarian perfectionist. If we followed the original path of life, there would be no such story.
But a good horse is different from a donkey even if it pulls a plow, and Bole's eyes will not be easily dimmed. After White found that the students were good at running, he decisively formed a team to train them to prepare for the state cross-country race. One, and won the championship again and again after that. McFarlane must have become California's trail running mecca.
White is still the stinky and hard White, but inadvertently because of a little perseverance and a little appreciation, his life has taken a twist. It's not that he has become such a great winner in life - he has spent the rest of his life in McFarland, but he has found his own value, and has helped this closed-eyed town find its own value, helping these The ignorant child has found his own value. I have to say that sometimes some people are really like stars, because their stars can also shine.
Political correctness is a must for a positive film, especially in the US. The political correctness of this film is something I appreciate very much. It praises manual labor, which is rare today; it praises Lao Mo's family view and sense of community; and every child is praised. This film is based on a true story, and the real White is like that too. Institutional equality is external, and internal equality is more valuable. People too like to talk about a group of people as one person, and they like to treat people rather than things, and therefore miss many opportunities to understand the differences and richness of the world.
As I said at the beginning, this movie is still a sports movie with a brilliant but predictable ending, but it made me feel the pure joy brought by sports once again, and felt that it seemed to compete with others, but in fact it was with myself. The value of the efforts of those who are not satisfied with the status quo in competition is thought to be remembered.
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