Review of Remember the Titans (2000) by Taylor H — 23 Apr 2016
On April 15, 1947 Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier. Twenty-four years later in, ''Remember the Titans,'' we are still fighting the very same battle. Based upon a less well-known episode in the racial history of American sports, the integration of a high school football team in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971, it provides an awful lot of swelling from within.
Coach Boone (Denzel Washington) and Coach Yoast (Will Patton) meet in the beginning of the movie and Coach Yoast shares his concern that his players won't play. Coach Boone then says that the best player will play, skin color doesn't matter. Coach Yoast then responds with, "Coach, I'm afraid that is the only thing that does matter right now." Coach Boone and Coach Yoast do an unbelievable job of balancing the effects of racism in developing these young football players into men. They use football to teach them to control their anger on the gridiron, but most importantly, in real life.
The moment that changes the team from a group of individual to an actual team is when Coach Boone takes them on a run through the woods to Gettysburg. He shares his feelings of how 50,000 men died on the very ground they were standing on fighting the same battle they were fighting today. Life is not necessarily about liking everyone you're around, but respecting them. That's all Boone asks from them, to help them become a group of men.
In the end of it all, this movie crosses more than one goal line and overcomes defeat. The Titans defy the odds and conquer defeat in the game of football, but more importantly, in the game of life.
This review of Remember the Titans (2000) was written by Taylor H on 23 Apr 2016.
Remember the Titans has generally received very positive reviews.
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