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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 1801626" data-attributes="member: 515">Then you aren't very good at interpreting what you saw in the trailers, because that's not what is in the movie. Actually, the movie isn't even about sports. It's about coming of age, or in other words, growing up. In the movie, it happens for those kids by playing football, and overcoming adversity both on the field and off it. Some of that adversity has little or nothing to do with sports. And actually Odessa is not a small town. It's a small city -- 90,000 population -- but hardly a small town. And the message from some of the parents is to do good in football so the player can get a college scholarship, get a degree to get the education needed to get a good-paying job and get out of Odessa, where the prospects for a better life are limited. There's nothing wrong with that, since those parents probably can't afford to send their kids to college any other way. If the players are smart enough to do the college work, and have no other option to afford to go to college except getting an athletic scholarship, I see nothing wrong with them trying to get that scholarship, if it will allow them to improve their prospects in life. And one real-life spoiler bit: [spoiler]The star player who is counting on football, and only football, to get him through life. The one who is counting on becoming a pro and making lots of money on only his athletic talents. He gets hurt in the first game, and his career is over. No college scholarship, no pro career, no big money. The movie doesn't come out and tell you this, but there is a scene in which that player, after the injury, is watching the garbage men pickup trash in his neighborhood. He is seeing his future -- literally. The real Boobie Miles (the player in the film) is today a garbage man in Monahans, a small town near Odessa.[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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