What I love about this season, Summer, is the time I have to watch more sports and that extra energy to also practice them, basically, at the end, the time available mostly spent on doing nothing! And this summer, of all the last three, is that summer. It’s the Olympics and I’ll be able to follow it 24/7 for the first time. You know, you can always see great material in these events. There are always some amazing stories. It’s where you find many times, humans being more than humans, how should I put it? They do things, they overcome obstacles, they transpire and face overwhelming feelings and events we couldn’t even imagine. So I’m really excited. I decided to spend my time watching a few sports movies. Though, I find it hard to find them, I don’t know if it’s my bad search but it’s hard to find a good quality film. There are lot of football, basketball, baseball and some boxing, I can tell. I end up watching these, out of completely random.
A League of Their Own
From
a female point of view it’s really interesting to look at the women’s history
and even in the way the society grew, the excuses based on gender are still the
same basic ones. It’s just amazing that there are still millions of people who
believe that a girl or a woman is supposed to play the soft, feminine role.
When many say in parenting there’s got to be both genders so that the woman
brings the affection and tender and this, obviously, it's incoherent, it’s close
minded, it’s ignorant; like these girls’ need to be dressed the way they do in
the movie, just so that they wouldn’t lose their, let’s say, roots.
Today
you read the ESPN’S Body Issue and female athletes tell stories of being teased
in high school because they had large shoulders, they had muscles. You see,
it’s like we’re never looking for the good side of things. If they had muscles
it meant they were healthy and fit. And there’s nothing wrong with it, they can
still be girls, they can still be affectionate and grownups should be telling
this to their sons and daughters. This has always been this way and I guess it
always will be, whether was and still is in women’s struggles to have the same
opportunities in sports or at any other society circumstances.
In
sports, just in sports the depth is huge. Leagues created for men in the
sixties and only in the nineties they’re created for women. In the Olympics,
the number of sports women played much later than men, many times because they
didn’t had the ‘body strength’ or hadn’t gone pro because they didn’t had the
opportunity to, there was no support. In the film, the women’s baseball wins
great popularity and as the season approaches the end, they want it shut down
because men are coming back, meaning, they don’t need women any more. They
aren’t worth it anymore. Who cares about having the same opportunity? Their
place is at home. But for me, it also feels like they were threatened. I think
men have been always frightened of women and I think it’s because they’re the
first to knowledge the fact that they will kick the shit out of them. Men (and including even the women) never
been used to this and like many other things in society, it takes time.
Let’s
just say that these women weren’t the most independent and free of choices, but
it was a surprisingly hilarious film. I felt like playing baseball, hitting the
ball really hard, and I don’t even have a clue of what they’re doing in the
field. I would say that Rosie O’Donnell *slash* her character, slightly stole
the show. She made me laugh so hard, mainly because she was just genuine! But Madonna also pulled a couple of fun moments, especially when
she says “uh, oops, my blossoms came flying out?” Instantly back to Leslie
Knope. I had a lot of fun!
"Oops, my vest popped open"
Without Limits
A
known tale on an inspiring story based on the life of a professional athlete.
He was Steve Prefontaine, he was in many ways gifted like many professional
athletes. Their hearts are pretty wicked. This was one of them. It’s
interesting to look at a professional athlete and see what they hold on to,
what motivates them to keep working day after day. Though I was not a big fan
of the implication in the flashbacks of him suffering from bullying when he was
a kid that made him run the way he ran. I’m sure being teased for his Dumbo
hears didn’t make Michael Phelps the swimmer he is today.
Basketball:
Glory
Road – I love it when I get the chills.
And a couple more:
Swimming
Upstream – I genuinely like this film, not because it’s possibly one of the few
films featuring this sport (swimming) but because it’s a very authentic film. Parents are
many times the coaches behind the athlete, the competition between brothers, the family, it
was profound.
Children
of Glory – This one should be my favorite! Because it gathers my genres,
history, war, sports, romance! And yes, I liked this Hungarian film and I recommend it.
Pride
– Yap, I cried and yap I’m easily taken.
P.S - Happy Games and good luck! (I'm jumping of excitment, I can hardly take it!)
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