If you ever get a daughter who dares say the phrase “I want to be a model,” this is the film to stick on. It details how the brutal modelling industry grooms vulnerable young Russian girls to work in Japan. Don’t expect sexy poses and pouting lips but think more in the lines of depression and exploitation.
An unstoppable volunteer coach with a no-nonsense attitude is in charge of one of the most unruly sets of high school football players ever. The team has one chance to transform their luck, and with it their future, but will they take it? Aside from personal struggles, victories and losses, this Oscar-winner shows what happens to youth when there are no jobs or future prospects in sight and could easily have been set in Tottenham instead of Memphis.
As The Wire’s David Simon says in the film: “The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion,” and after seeing this film you can’t deny this fact. Is the war on drugs really working? No. So why are we continuing with it?
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