Just My Views On The Movie

Rating: 10/10 (18 February 2005)

The movie Friday Night Lights is a very dramatically intense movie. It is very emotionally involved. A few people out there may see the movie as a mere disappointment, due to their previous readings of the books. This is what really ticks me off; I think anyone who bases the quality of a movie off a book is very one-sided. Nothing can be perfectly copied without being distorted or modified offset from the actual. These changes are in our everyday lives and are a part of everything. Nobody can duplicate text into a motion picture so perfect that it will even catch those whom have read the book. I'm sorry, but not even the Lord of The Rings series accurately portrayed the book, even though it was very close to doing so.
The biggest impact that this movie will create and display is the mere fact that High School football brings a ton of emotion to a small town. I can display this because I played with a team that was "everyone for everything". We spent the entire season working out together, playing together and becoming a team in unison. This is shown in Friday Night Lights by the scene when the entire team is together in the weight room growing stronger. The weakest link on the team at this time was their star running-back, who was no team player at all and decided that the team could ONLY win by relying on him and his ability to run and play well. We did not let diversity take any sort of a toll on us. The teams in the movie refused to allow change in the momentum or change in playing style affect them. They stuck it out and pulled themselves into the state championship without their best player. My team was as close as those in Friday Night Lights. My team ended up losing in the state semi-finals, after winning our first EVER district championship for the school's history and first EVER state quarter-finals for the school. We were a team, we were one. We lost the game in the last 30 seconds of the fourth quarter. The last loss was so harsh, that at least half of the team including me walked out of the locker room with tears pouring from our eyes. This happened in Friday Night Lights also. The team lost the game by a slim margin right at the end and was severely heart broken. This feeling was like having the life taken from us and then our hearts stop pumping. So to tie this back into the movie, High School football is very emotional. This movie is clearly an emotional piece of artwork. It covers enough of momentum changers during a football game to get the point across on how small towns can be affected by a sport.
When the star running back gets injured, the stadium goes silent. When the quarterback gets nailed, the stadium gets taken by surprise. When the team loses, it's like their pride has receded from them. Football players are just as emotional as everyone in the stands, but their emotions are amplified several times more. The only way to ever feel the emotions that football players on a very close-knit team feel is to experience it for your self. This movie is very powerful to anyone who has feelings. I believe that this movie is very well acted and portrayed, which once more there is people out there who believe the movie was poorly acted, written and portrayed. I just want to say that that's your opinion, keep it and express it to anyone else.