This is an AMAZING Movie

Rating: 10/10 (22 March 2019)

The story of 42 The Story of Jackie Robinson is an AMAZING film. There is amazing acting in this film done by all characters. The main characters are Jackie Robinson played by Chadwick Boseman, Branch Rickey played By Harrison Ford, Rachel Robinson played by Nicole Benhaire and Ben Chapman played by Alan Tudyk. In 1946 there was 400 white baseball players in 1947 there was 399 white baseball players and 1 African American baseball players in the major league baseball. This movie is the story and struggle of how we went from 400 to 399.
The Movie starts off showing the negro baseball league and its super star Jackie Robinson. Then we go to the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Mr. Ricky is looking for an African American to play on his team. This is where the theme of the movie comes in as with persistence and the right attitude anything is possible. There are several themes to this film, but I think the one above sums up all of them well.
As you can imagine this was not any easy thing for Jackie to do. Jackie and Rachel received many threats of their lives and their child's lives. The battle of hope we will call it starts right off the bat when Rachel and Jackie try to fly to Florida for spring training this is where Rachel sees an all-white bathroom for the first time, and they get bumped from their flight for a white couple. They get run out of the first town in Florida by a mob that they were told was coming for Jackie. Then in the second city Jackie was told to get off the field or be arrested.
Jackie spends his first year in the minor leagues. They go to Panama City for the second year of spring training and the major league players sign a petition to not allow Jackie to play on the team. This doesn't work for them. This dose not work for them in fact after returning to New York from Panama City Jackie is offered a position on the Brooklyn Dodgers. This is when Jackie gets tested as to how bad he wants this.
Jackie is tested by the Phillies manager Ben Chapman, because when Jackie is up to bat Ben yells all kinds of racial slurs. Ben also yells to one of the other Dodgers players to tell them that Jackie is sleeping with his wife, which of course is false. This causes Jackie to almost lose it but he received a pep talk from Mr. Ricky who explained to him his greater purpose. He said he provided hope for all children in America including white children. Jackie finally gets his team to believe in him and they come together. A player purposely steps on Jackie's leg and cuts him. The team wants to hit the next player in the head, but Jackie knows how important it is to him and everyone in the country for him to not blow this opportunity of a lifetime to change the world.
I think this movie can be very inspirational to anybody that watches it. The story shows how if a person is determined they can get thru anything. If you think about the things Jackie went through for the greater good of all-American people including African Americans, we can go thru any struggle that comes our way, because I think we would be hard pressed to find anything remotely close to what Jackie went thru. I think the movie showed that he was one of the greatest Americans of all time.