Friday Night Lights

I’ve never been much of a sports fan, maybe it’s because I lack that whole hand-eye coordination thing. From time to time I watch the odd film. Last night I watched ‘Friday Night Lights‘, it follows the story of the 1988 Permian Panthers in their quest for the State title. It’s based a book by New York Times sports critic, H.G. Bissinger. It’s set in Odessa in Texas, a town that at the time prioritised American Football. The film from other highschool american football films because it focuses on the reality of the situation, that ultimately 17 old year kids are put under overwhelming pressure to win by the town and their parents because “this is their one chance in life”. Anyway two things stood out for me about the film, one was the long lingering shots and the second was the soundtrack. Explosions in the sky wrote the whole soundtrack and it just fit so well with the plot and way the movie was shot. I’ve never been mad on Post Rock but there’s just something so cathartic and uplifting about Explosions in the Sky’s form of it.

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