The best drama I've seen this year must be this "Football Coach". The plot is also very simple. An American rugby coach was hired to be the coach of the English Premier League professional football team. At the same time, he was full of jokes, and he was very warm and healed.
In the first 20 minutes of watching this drama, I thought it would be a kind of Japanese inspirational warm-up drama. A passionate teacher saves the entire poor student class, an optimistic female protagonist resolves the numbness and indifference in the workplace, or it is a real motivational act. The heart of other people's pursuit of dreams.
Of course, the coach Russo can indeed be classified into "this category" in this play, terribly naive, blindly optimistic, warm and kind, and indomitable.
But looking at it, the biggest feeling that "Football Coach" gives me is that Russo's "doing something or not".
The American heroic protagonist, solving problems and difficulties, almost never appeared in the play.
Stadium assistant Nathan was bullied, captain Roy couldn't see it, went to him, he said directly that he would not interfere.
Watching the female boss encounter all kinds of humiliation and dilemmas, the audience felt uncomfortable and felt that he might have to come out and beat up the female boss's scumbag, but he didn't. In the bar, she rescued the female boss by shooting darts, only to stop her ex-husband from appearing in front of the boss. What should I do afterwards.
When Tate was scolded by his violent father for passing the ball to others in a room, Lasso saw from the hallway that he did not interfere, but he just walked away silently, but asked another coach to hand him a piece of paper at the end of the play. Bar, tell Tate, that pass is very good.
However, the people around him are still changing.
Roy became a real team leader; Tate walked out of his narcissistic world and passed the ball to others; Sam, like Nathan, shines because of being seen, and the female boss also walked out of anger and found The way he tortured his ex-husband by destroying the club did not bring happiness.
What he does has always been to let everyone deal with their own human life problems. If the people around you are unhappy, Lasso can listen, you can say something stupid about yourself, or even jokes that you can't touch. But the source of the unhappiness of the other party has to be solved by the other party. This is their own proposition. You can't even see what blood he has beaten others, what you are the best, and you are the best. In this case, he never said a word.
This is really the rare value core in American TV dramas, and it is also the most valuable lesson I have learned.
Those who want to be leaders and want to make a difference can watch this drama. You will know that influencing others is sometimes not about doing anything, but about letting others do something for themselves.
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