pretty good racial harmony story

Rating: 5/10 (28 June 2001)

Nice movie, but just off from being great.
Denzel Washington did okay, but one could just imagine how alive the character would have been if Samual Jackson had played him. Seemed to me that he (Denzel) was younger than the character and that they tried to make him (not the family though) seem older.
I played southern high school football and on many afternoons (offseason) found myself the only white guy in the school weight room and not having to sing blues or behave such. But Hollywood, this movie as an example, keep making it like the Black way of doing things is the THE way of doing things and it's not. But the wave of that thinking (brainwashing?) has swept over the US for the last twenty years and this movie is just reflection that nothing before Brown vs. Board of Education mattered except the oppression of the Africans. I wish we could just get the over this idea of racism as an emotion or state of mind by and of itself. Racism is a reaction, a defensive, protective attitude just as prejudgice is one's survival mode kicking in and trying to preserve ones state of being. Of course we know where the southern anglo state of being is going these days. This movie did a so so job of showing that Blacks are just as racists as Whites, it mostly showed them as being the better people and teaching and guiding the White folks toward correctness, except for a few token places like the white coach suggesting the winning play.
The way the Titans went onto the field for their games was a joke too. They would have been the laughing stock of the state. It looked silly and only a bunch of queers would do that. If they entered the game this way they surely must have cracked up their opponents and/or made them not take them seriously.