pure raw emotion that will inspire you

Rating: Null/10 (31 January 2005)

I have never been much of a football fan. Having grown up in India, football is the sport i would play on a wet monsoon day - what Americans call soccer.
Friday Night Lights is the most inspiring movie I have ever seen. It captures completely the rise and fall of emotions that accompany the life of any athlete. The movie feels like a low budget production that is like watching an NFL films production of an old Super Bowl documentary. The movie does not have the color and Hollywood feel of Any Given Sunday or the master performance of Jamie Foxx or Al Pacino or Dennis Quaid.
The relatively unknown actors render an awesome gut-wrenching performance. The movie is based on a real story. Peter Berg has made sure that it feels like exactly that. No glitz and glamor - just pure raw emotions in very real situations.
You go through the movie with a feeling of discomfort because you are not used to a movie being so real.
Watch it a few times. It might not be very fast paced and might lack the emotional finale of other sports movies - that is because it is a movie not about sports but about people.