ok, i finally watched the movie
friday night lights. was it really like that? uh, i guess. some things were so right on it was ridiculous. the mania? yeah, it was really like that. the graveling girls giving their football players sweets? yep. the packed stadium? indeed. the solemn drama in the field house before games? i have no idea, but probably.
some things were just so wrong, it irked me everytime i saw them..... things like the sign with all the championships listed on it.... that thing wasn't at ratliff. it was at the school, over the marching band practice area. but whatever. further, the in-town rivalry between permian and odessa high school wasn't touched on at all. those poor kids from ohs. slighted once again. tsk-tsk.
my experience was one of the lone band girl, standing there looking all confused about the game and half-heartedly cheering whenever something good happened. football eludes me completely: i have no idea what a 'first down' is or any of that stuff. i don't even know enough to say i don't know what something is. i only dated a football player my sophomore year and he was a senior. super cute too. sometime i'll write about the time he asked me out, i swear it happened in slow motion. none of the football guys my age would have anything to do with me, which sucked because i secretly wanted to be popular and know about football and such. guess it wasn't in my cards. wahoo!
i liked the movie, i suppose, but only because i went to that school. (which is so freakin' bizarre) this is turning out to be a terrible review of a mildly terrible movie. fitting, i guess.
{disclaimer: i was born in odessa and moved away at age 5 or so. lived many many places and ended up back in odessa for 10-12 grades, just in time to graduate high school with kids i was in pre-k with. i can't with any good conscious claim odessa as my home, thank god, but i lived there long enough to grasp at a point of view. if i get time, i'll scan in my quote from my senior year book. gawd, it's funny.}
