Running Brave film

Assignment #1

     Running Brave is a movie inspired by the true story of Billy Mills, a Native American with Indian heritage who was accepted with scholarship to the University of Kansas. Since the beginning of the movie he faced racism and many struggles because of his background, but that did not keep him from achieving his goals. Billy Mills is the perfect definition of courage and perseveration, one which fought for his main goal every time he went to the track.  

     His internal journeys started with his personal thoughts and went through the relationship he had with his family, specially his dad and sister. One of the first internal journeys that appears’ in the movie is the relationship with his dad. The movie starts by showing the last race in high school and after he retrospect’s back to when his dad taught him how to run. We could see the great relationship he had with his father and coach at the same time. He always said that running made him feel good and different, and all because of his father that he thanks for his talents in the present. Going a little further in the movie, he shows us the internal journey of spending time with his father in the ring, who was a fighter. This journal of when he was little reflects his emotions towards the scene because his dad died just after a fight, showing how he misses his father now that he is running in college. After days in college he wrote a letter to his sister telling her his firsts experiences on college and how different it was from home. We see here the internal journey of reading the letter to his sister so we can appreciate his firsts days in the university. This relationship with his sister goes on through the movie as he always wrote her letters as he promised when he left.

 

 

 

     The external journeys are all throughout the movie. At first he was running through the field and we saw him win the race. He was told he was accepted to the University of Kansas so we see his firsts external journeys of going to a different place from home for the first time. We see that he enters the university all excited. The first contact with the college world was when he met his roommate, who after a while we see they get along pretty good. Once he joined the running team he started feeling the pressure of having an Indian background since his teammates made strong remarks about it. We also see when he meets with who granted his scholarship and he managed the situation well. For the first race of the season he encountered and old friend from high school that also ran. The coach told him to set the pace but at the race he ran him as he knew how too.