Introduction to “Critical Thinking Skill Selection”

During Intermission Week #1, we selected movies to analyze and write about during a timed writing exercise. “Remember the Titans”, was the film selected because I never watched it before and thought it might be promising. Right away there were the stereo types typically discussed over coffee, dinner, or just in general. It had all the ingredients of baking a cake of prejudice. The social setting was in the south, black against white, and school segregation. During the time writing exercise we selected characters to review and analyze as a sense of identity or sense of belonging. This should be viewed collectively as a whole while separating a character as to their sense of belonging. Gary who was a gifted white player from an established all white school was chosen because he moved in and out of belonging to being an outcast because of a friendship with a black player, “Julius” and back again once the team did well in the football games. This movie was really a mix of racial slangs, prejudices, and all ends well at closing. I tried to focus on individuals instead of the movie as a whole because some of the characters such as Louie made this movie. Louie was an outcast because he was cast as a white trash kind of guy with no community or particular notch in this culture. The characters were the focus of the analysis for me and made the movie enjoyable. In the end the title given to this exercise fit the simplicity of the movie under review, “Character Wins Over Prejudice.”