I just watched this on HBO and I loved it so much. I'm a guy but grew up with three very strong-willed sisters, one of whom was - and remains - very athletic. It was no surprise to me, then, that the girls in this wonderful documentary could go up against boys and give them a run for their money. The coach of the team is documentary director, Jenny Mackenzie. She gets the most out of her players because she treats them with dignity, respect and admiration. You can tell they thrive under her leadership. Part of what is so heartwarming about the film is watching the girls on the team together. They apply bandages, both literal and spiritual, when their teammates fall. This is not about trashing boys and honoring girls; some of the boys show great admiration for the girls. Some face coming to grips with the fact that a girls' team that plays cohesively is probably going to succeed. How many wins, losses and/or ties are there against the boys. I'm not telling, 'cause you have to see it for yourself. You'll be glad you did.
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I just lost 30 minutes of my life.
aksloper18 November 2010
Warning: Spoilers
To begin with, it's little kid's soccer. It was a recreational league, which means none of this meant anything, and is definitely not the first time a girls team has played in a boys league. Am I amazed that girls, who mature at a younger age than boys (and on film were noticeably larger than their competitors) won. Not at all. Theirs leagues where they don't have the numbers to produce enough teams in certain parts of the country, so they end up making it coed anyways. Oh my god, girls playing with and against boys, who would've ever thought it would happen. Lets face the facts, the documentary was produced in 2008, and this isn't the peak of civil rights.
In all honesty I feel that the director who made the movie (the mom coaching the team), was just looking for her fifteen minutes, and this was a way of getting it. Riding on the coat tails of her daughter's teammates success. How do I come to this conclusion? Because of how many times shes has her daughter reference her in a thirty minute documentary. These are little kids, don't let the camera fool ya, majority of this was scripted. Good for the mom wanting to show how proud of her daughter she is by making a movie about the team. The only difference is that most other parents do it by making home movies.
In all honesty I feel that the director who made the movie (the mom coaching the team), was just looking for her fifteen minutes, and this was a way of getting it. Riding on the coat tails of her daughter's teammates success. How do I come to this conclusion? Because of how many times shes has her daughter reference her in a thirty minute documentary. These are little kids, don't let the camera fool ya, majority of this was scripted. Good for the mom wanting to show how proud of her daughter she is by making a movie about the team. The only difference is that most other parents do it by making home movies.
Very bland
munkeyman17 June 2009
I'm not sure what this was really trying to prove. Young kids who are yet to develop are obviously in the same class. Put the same girls vs the same boys when they're 16 or 18 and it wouldn't even be a game.
There are good girls at sports, everyone knows that. But a fully developed male vs a fully developed female in pretty much any sport, you know who will pretty much always win, and it's not a "guy's rule!" statement. It's just how we evolved. In this film it shows a segment where they thought the other team was playing rough the entire game, but they only showed 1 clip of the "unfair" play because a girl fell down and cried. The other clip was a boy kicking the ball first and the girl running in to him and falling. In case they didn't know the rules, ball first = no foul.
Just a "girl power" documentary. Thank god it only lasted 30 minutes.
There are good girls at sports, everyone knows that. But a fully developed male vs a fully developed female in pretty much any sport, you know who will pretty much always win, and it's not a "guy's rule!" statement. It's just how we evolved. In this film it shows a segment where they thought the other team was playing rough the entire game, but they only showed 1 clip of the "unfair" play because a girl fell down and cried. The other clip was a boy kicking the ball first and the girl running in to him and falling. In case they didn't know the rules, ball first = no foul.
Just a "girl power" documentary. Thank god it only lasted 30 minutes.
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