Coach Carter
We are all meant to shine, as children do. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
Everyone can shine.
——from movie
Coach Carter is based on the true story of Ken Carter, a high school basketball coach
rules
target
1 / Screenshot from movie
consciousness
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Reality • illusion
On the Richmond High School basketball team, the players are technically rotten, disunified, and self-abandoned, but Coach Carter leads the players step by step to 13 consecutive wins and success, which is inseparable from his encouragement of the players and the motivation of the players to work hard.
inspirit
At first, the players only met the physiological and safety needs, and then Cruz, who was reluctant to sign an agreement and left the team, saw that the players began to win, and also wanted to return to the basketball team to fight with everyone, pursue their hobbies and a sense of belonging. Coach Carter rejected him as agreed, but eventually went out of his way, promising to return to the team if he completed 2,500 push-ups and 1,000 "suicides" within the allotted time. It reflects that the rules should be strictly adhered to but also adjusted according to the specific circumstances. Cruz wasn't done, and just as he was about to be kicked out, Lyle stepped forward to help him do push-ups, and then the rest of the team came to help him, and we heard for the first time from the rambling group of cadets: "We are a team." From that moment on, the trainees realized the social need for belonging, acceptance, and friendship.
When Coach Carter first took over the basketball team, Worm and Cruz called the coach a stupid from the country, and the word Negro was also the usual name of the players, and they did not feel ashamed. In the upper class, in the eyes of Coach Carter, "Negro" is a term that is both insulting, and he does not allow the players to call themselves "Negro" and call them "sir", and goes out of his way to tell them the importance of "respect". Later, Coach Carter led the basketball team to win one game after another, from the unpopular and unknown basketball team to the championship qualification, the players found that they could get success, honor, and praise from the outside world, and they no longer said that they were "Negro". At this point, they realize social needs, including external needs for status, recognition, or attention, and internal needs for self-esteem, autonomy, and fulfillment.
At this time, the Richmond team went to victory step by step, and everyone began to indulge, humiliating other teams during the game, and sneaking out in the middle of the night to bomb. They have no other pursuits in their lives, they just want to play basketball well. There is no doubt that their grades are difficult to go to college, and they will only be one of the black people at the bottom, with no money and no dignity, and may die quietly on the street one day. Coach Carter forced them to do more than 2.3 academically, and they stopped training before they reached it, because he knew that if they didn't go to college, maybe these basketball games would be the most glorious moments of their lives, and they were still so young! Coach Carter was questioned by the whole community and still did not change his original intentions, and when he planned to leave his job, he finally walked into the basketball court to find the children sitting on the court to study. At that moment, it really brought tears to people's eyes. Because, we know that the trainees have a need for self-realization, and want to work hard to get out of this chaotic and poor place, and use actions to influence the people around them, telling them that there are still infinite possibilities in the future.
At the end of the film, Kenny went from being overwhelmed to understanding the direction of life, taking his girlfriend away with him, taking on his own responsibilities, and Coach Carter said that they grew from boys to men. We are fortunate that in the end, 5 members of the basketball team won scholarships and 6 went to college and received degrees. It was Coach Carter who gave them the need for self-actualization: the need for self-development, self-worth realization, and self-ideal realization, which is the driving force behind the individual's pursuit of the limits of ability.
Past • Future
影片末尾有一句话，让我感受颇深：“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.”
To use the old saying that we Chinese: poor is not discouraged, rich is not crazy. When we are in an unfavorable situation, we tend to fall into self-doubt, self-abandonment, and self-depravity, which often puts us in more unfavorable and desperate situations. Just like every step of our lives, three years of hard work in high school, for a good university, to achieve their own bragging, but after going to college, some students forgot the ideal of three years, and the only thing left was to stay up late to play games, skip class, and hang up subjects. When I graduated, all that was left was confusion and anxiety. What they fear most is not their own depravity and laziness at the beginning, but the regret and pain of knowing that they have a bright future and have been destroyed by themselves.
Life has no starting line, it is never a sprint, it is a marathon with yourself. Stick to your own plan, change starts with everything, and let your spiritual world support your own world.
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