Reading Log 1

Reading Log 1

Title: Coach Carter

Director: Thomas Carter

Text Type: Film
Initial Release: 13 January 2005

Coach Carter is a powerful film about a high school basketball team called the 'Richmond Oilers' the school is in a very low decile area where most high school students are getting themselves into bad situations. The Richmond Oilers get a new coach, called Ken carter. Ken carter originally was a student at Richmond who holds many basketball records. Ken carter became the coach so he could enrich the lives of these players so they could do something with their lives, but this all gets ruined when the players end up failing all their classes even though the oilers were undefeated in their new season. Which is when coach ken carter takes a stand and locks the players out of the gym until the players reach a 2.3 gpa. This then causes chaos in the Richmond community and Coach ken carter gets sent to court, but in this case he takes his first loss fot the team.

I thought that coach ken carter was the most inspirational character in the film. At the beginning of the film he was mean and selfish, as well as he was quite stubborn. But towards the end he becomes more and more caring, the reason he was doing it, was to get the best out of the team and get all of their full abilities to arise., now I realise that he's only coaching this team to make a change in young teenagers lives to keep these teenagers out of prison. When the team first meet the coach they had no respect for him. They were careless and furious towards him because they didnt understand what he's doing for them with tike and effort. They only cared about his skin colour and his knowledge of the sport. I think a lot of people can relate to coach ken carter because he's a man who's grown up in a bad community with bad experiences. So he's making a change to the world. There are a lot of people these days who can make simple differences in the world and  all they need to do is love eachother not hate eachother. This world is full of hate today, it doesn't matter what starts it but all that matters is how it ends and what it will destroy in its Path, coach carter is so inspirational, he shows that it doesn't matter what community or what race you are from, he shows that all that matters is the live that we give eachother. 

The theme of love is the best theme for this film. Because In the film coach ken carter put the team in situations where they had to work together to be able to to reach their goal, and along the way of reaching these goals the team became closer through every step. For example through out the film, the players drastically changed the way they looked after their coach after they realised all he was doing is keeping them out of trouble. This can be seen when coach carter says "I see a system that's designed for you to fail.. Richmond High only graduates fifty percent of its students. And of those that do graduate only six percent go to college; which tells me when I walk down these halls and I look in your classrooms, maybe only one student is going to go to college. Young men in Richmond  probably will go to prison. In this county, thirty three percent of black males between eighteen and twenty four, get arrested. So look at the guy on your left, now look at the guy on your right. One of you is going to get arrested. This film shows how easy it is for 1 man to change at least 11 people's lives by a sport

In conclusion, I think coach carter is a powerful and breathtaking film, it has a lot of strong messages on the movie which would head towards teens and their lives. It also helps teens get there heads straight for all the good things that can happen to you through sports