The Movie I chose to review today is a favourite of mine since i was a kid. Remember the titans is a movie that combines an amazing sports story of a football team overcoming all odds and winning the state championships. However, what makes this story amazing isn't the fact that a group of young boys came together to win a championship, its that they did this despite being separated by race. This movie produced by the infamous Jerry Bruckheimer shows the struggles of black people to fit into regular everyday life in the 1960s and 1970s. These boys were at the front and centre of a racial war between African American an caucasian people, yet through the course of this movie they create a bond that goes beyond skin colour, and perhaps the most significant bond in this movie is between team captain Gary Bertier and star African American player Julius Campbell. This movie is based on a true story and is a big part of our history. The main character in this movie is Denzel Washington, who stars as the head coach of the Titans and guides them through adversity. A major part of the movie is the fact that coach Herman Boone (Denzel Washington) is African American himself, and the city of Alexandria, Virginia has trouble accepting him as a head coach given the fact that he is of a different race. Throughout the movie coach Boone guides these boys to a championship and along the way he lays the stepping stones for these boys to create bonds with each other despite the racial difference. At first the young men are very reluctant to socialize with each other, but coach Boone uses his tactics to get them talking and from there everything else is history. To me this movie symbolizes all the great things about humanity and kindness. An instant classic, I would recommend this movie to anyone and I can honestly say that there is nothing about this movie that I disliked, an amazing movie to say the least.
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