Remember the Titans

Oh my goodness. This movie is such a joy. Yes, imagine that--a girl that really enjoys a movie about football and brotherhood. I used to watch this movie with my dad all the time when I was younger. I think I developed my strong beliefs about equality and racial justice. It was one of the first movies I saw when I was younger that addressed the subject of civil rights or racial injustice.
This movie opens with a female narrator who we later discover is the daughter of the old head football coach at T.C. Williams High School--a school in Alexandria, Virginia that has recently been integrated. She remembers when the school was finally instructed to integrate and the new head football coach that came in to run the football team. Coincidentally, the new coach was African American.
The story goes on, and obviously the teenage boys on this team struggle with being black and white together in a world that is constantly telling them to stay separate. They fight and don't want anything to do with each other at first. But one weekend before school starts for the boys, the coach takes them to a camp and they take a morning run to Gettysburg. This is where the boys decide to play for each other and for the team. Throughout the rest of the movie, the boys face many different kinds of struggles such as other people not accepting their bond and the almost fatal accident that one of their leaders was in. This movie really shows that hatred and views on equality are learned behavior and they can always be changed. At the end of the day, we're all just people trying to succeed, trying to find out who we are in the world, and make some kind of a difference.