A super film about as many -isms as you can fit

Rating: 10/10 (8 April 2011)

I have watched this film four times now and it still moves me in all the right ways in all the right places. I am not a great fan of American Football and yet it doesn't matter one jot because this movie is so much deeper and profound than any sport could be.
It is real life peeled away, layer by layer, just as the screenplay says it should. It doesn't attack anything by exaggeration, dramatic effect, or overstatement, it simply plays it out richly and simply through good, honest acting from a good, honest cast and a good, honest story.
The film is brave enough to lay bear the counter arguments about "agendas" hidden within its own story and expose our own doubts, fears, presumptions and prejudices.
I adore Sandra Bullock and I am pleased for her she found such a wonderful part to truly demonstrate her capacity for her art: an Oscar seems scant reward for such a wonderfully inspiring piece of drama. And the support is truly wonderful too.
Go see this movie if you want to leave a theatre with a good feeling in your gut despite "the warts and all" you go through in its two hours or so.
We can all change something even if it is only ourselves.