Movie Review: Remember The Titans

Have you ever been so involved in a movie that you feel that you are actually one of the participants instead of the audience? I was so involved in this show, I felt so much for these teenagers, for the town and the team. I went through all the emotions they did, I laughed, smiled, got mad, and even cried. This show was so phenomenally good that I want to see it again and again. I rarely buy movies but if I had to choose just one from this year's line up it would be "Remember The Titans".

Let me tell you more about this show:

The movie takes place in Virginia in 1971, a time of racial tension when the whites and blacks are forced to integrate. If you recall history, that was when school boards were enforcing changes to the school-district boundary lines causing a chaotic ruckus. "Remember The Titans" focuses on two local football teams forced to become one under the direction of a black football coach, Herman Boone (Denzel Washington). This infuriates the white players and their parents who think they'll never have a chance to play and that their starting positions will be given to the blacks. Since no one wants to work together, Boone has to find a way to get these players together, to become a team, and in the process coming to the realization that everyone is the same and can coexist in this small town.

How we are raised affects how we see the outside world, how we integrate and build relationships with each other. "Remember The Titans" shows people can still change and grow out of the racism taught at home.

It's up to you if you want to see this movie but all I really have to say is "WOW".

Five out of five stars.