Friday Night Lights 4K 2004

In the United States, American soccer is more than just a sport or a pastime. It is an ideology, it is a way of existence, it is life itself.

And the choice of the 'Friday Night Lights' creators of the soccer plot for their picture seems to be quite justified. It should be understandable and attractive to each and every American viewer.

But the director and screenwriters succeeded in their work much more than could be expected from a sports drama. They managed to make a strong and dynamic movie with many associations and subtexts. They brought out a whole host of characteristic characters, frosting between them diverse conflict situations.

The sports component has not suffered at all. Beautiful fights are the jewelry of this picture. Pokes, clashes, fights are effekt and with the greatest expressiveness demonstrate the 'fighting' side of American soccer.

The development of the plot reveals the emotional and psychological subtext of the behavior and actions of the heroes of the picture. For each of them the game has a front and a back side. The viewer is revealed to the whole background.

Roles, without exception, all the heroes of the picture played at a high level. Vividly (vitally) and emotionally. Good young actors, fully invested in their characters. They infect their game, make you cheer for their 'team'.

There are no claims to the director, perhaps, either. But the operator's camera that often 'slides' across the screen causes irritation. Still, I think it would have been better to shoot soccer in a different way.

There is a certain amount of ideological and moral instruction and psychoanalysis in the movie, but if you don't dwell on it, the film is easy and enjoyable to watch.