Running Brave film

Assignment #2

     Billy Mills had one goal in mind and that was to participate in the Olympics for his country. He shared this thought with the coach, who said that if he wanted to reach it, he had to fight for it and keep running. Billy always listened to his coach as he gave him good advice on life and running.

 

     As the movie went on, he always had trouble with his background. On his first invitation to a frat party, a member told him he could not enter because he was Indian. He was disgusted and left, feeling sad because people kept rejecting him. Another race went by and the next external journey appeared. After he won the race, he met the girl who later would become his girlfriend. As he kept winning races and studying, his sponsor offered him a job after graduation, which would be the start of a very unique external journey. Ethnicity problems kept arousing when Frank and Eddie went to visit him and Pat to her parent’s house when they where away. They saw it was a middle class house and 10 minutes later left mad because they felt out of place and that Billy did not belong there. Next couple of races he lost by what happened with Frank and Eddie, reducing his efficiency in the track and leading to his exit from the team after a fight with the coach. Ethnicity followed him everywhere and at this point his external journeys where going the wrong way. He decided to connect back with his family and went to the reservation again where he was greeted with love. In this external journey he witnessed the death of Frank, which he suffered badly.  


     For the internal journeys he suffered from lost of spirit in running as he communicated it to his sister. But he promised her to find the motivation again to keep racing. When he decided to go back to the reservation with his family we could see frustration and confusion in his mind. Many bad things happened to him consecutively and by all the pressure he made the decision. Back in the reservation, one day with Frank he ran again and felt good, felt he can reach his spirit again. This internal journey reflected his future comeback.