Alice, are you blind? don't you see the family resemblence? that's my brother.

On Remember the Titans:

This movie has a lot of love in it. Football is the great unifier for this newly integrated Virginia school. Of course, all parties go into the idea of an integrated team kicking-and-screaming, but by the end of the movie, the team is one family; all the players brothers and Coach Boone the daddy. The rivalry between Gerry and Julius quickly becomes a brotherhood that sets an example for the rest of the team.

All of the main characters in this movie start out as the hand of hate but start to turn into the hand of love, because of football. Society, on the other hand, is hate the whole way through. After the boys had made so much progress at camp, once they are dropped back in school they are in a society that is not ready to be integrated. It is a struggle to maintain that brotherhood in the face of adversity. Even as society tries to pull their ties apart, the team still goes on to win the state championship as the only integrated school competing. While some may argue that has to do with the athleticism of a team that is integrated, I'd like to think that the victory is more so due to the unique camaraderie that a team in the situation these boys are in have to go through. To want to win and to want to play so badly that as an individual you are willing to overcome all you knew about race, is a lot. A full squad of boys doing this together, at the same time, builds a lot of life-long friendships.

In addition to the fact that Remember the Titans is a great movie that tackles the issue of integration, this movie is on my list because of the setting. T.C. Williams is a local high-school, I know kids that go there and my home school has played them regularly. This movie helps to remind he how close to home (literally) the issue of black and white relations hit.

I am surprised by how little there is to cay about this movie. It is a great movie and i can recognize that. There are bricks thrown through windows, racial slurs and confrontations throughout this movie, it doesn't exactly sugar-coat the story. There is a certain "Hollywood-ed" quality to the story of Remember the Titans, but that is to be expected, seeing as is it a Disney movie. Mostly what I got out of re-watching this movie was more support for my theory about the hand of love and the hand of hate. This movie was solidly love. Next on the list is Monster's Ball