So I finsihed watching Coach Carter today with Renee. I have to admit…I thought the movie wasn’t going to be all that good…I thought that it was going to be nothing more than a pseudo inspirational movie that might be forgotten tomorrow. To my benefit…I was wrong. This movie was actually quite good.

Reading reviews across the Internet there are two things that I must agree about when speaking about this movie. 1, the direction in the movie was shoddy at times. I tend to agree with this but also disagree. The director seemed to move away from conventional Hollywood and push it further, but the director remained well within the reigns of, say, Law & Order. I guess it is the style of camera work one tries to use when shooting a film which tries to depict the ‘hood’.

Number two, the movie had a strong amount of philosophical background…and I liked this. This philosophical background wasn’t very much Matrix’esqe, but it was more along the lines of Martin Luther King type speeches. It sought to not only give a movie with kids coming out of the lesser situation and into a better condition, but also to make the viewer think about the progression of one’s own self in life and film.

The one thing that quickly stood out in this film and will more than likely stick with me for a while is a quote:

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our dark that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people don’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. Its not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsiously give other people the right to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Quite possibly the most catchy jingle in the whole entire universe, Woo hoo, by The 5,6,7,8′s, is a sure fire hit whenever one pops it into whichever music player they use. The song originated from (it seems) the movie Kill Bill (an equisite piece of cinema if I must say so myself).

But back to the reason why it is so catchy. I’ve been whistling that song for well over the past year. Now that the song is getting some press (if you consider commercial/TV music as press) everyone around the office is whistling it. Pretty funny if I must say so myself.