But movies are supposed to be an escape. As much as I love a great realistic film, if every movie I watched was about the world as it is, I would get mighty depressed. That's what the paper is for. Disney can create that escape film that still manages to remind us that the world is not perfect. Even as the football players learn to come together, their community is working to rip them apart.
Relationships end, friendships are strained and parents are at odds with their children.
Even glossed over, the central points are still real. If the movie has a stumbling point, it is only in the fact that while some white people in the film are not jerks, not a single black person in the film is. We all know that is not the way the world works and it wouldn't hurt to remind people that there were people going to far on both sides of the racial fence. Mending can never begin until we all realize that none of us are perfect. The movie is about learning to celebrate our differences while recognizing we are all essentially the same.