What keeps you on your toes, has your heart beating at a fast pace one on one, and challenges you to grow? Love and basketball, which are two very similarly intense subjects based on communication, focus, dedication, and pressure. The movie was very successful in conveying these topics while making an interesting story to follow along with. The two main characters, Monica and Quincy share similar interests, one of which is the other’s heart, and the other, a sport that causes them both pain and joy. The pressure of perfecting skills on the court has never helped two individuals more than Monica and Quincy. Both struggling to get to the top of the game, had obstacles in the way, whether it have to do with being a woman in a predominantly male sport(Monica), or living the life out from the shadow of your well known father(Quincy). It is only the support they share with each other over the years that gets them threw it all. Breaking the mold and stereotype is what this movie is foc...
My mom has told me she used to ask “little me” what I wanted to be when I grow up. When I was around 3, the answer was, “to be an ice skater”(that was during the time of Kristi Yamaguchi). She said when she checked in again, a few months later, I said “a princess”. When my mom told me you can’t be a princess when you grow up, because it’s not a job, I apparently replied, “Well, if I can’t be a princess a ballerina will do. They are just as beautiful.” It was then that she decided to enroll me into Contra Costa Ballet Center, and my dancing career began. You know, I didn’t like ballet very much at first. We constantly had to listen to this boring music with no one singing, keep straight faces, suck in our belly’s, and were not allowed to socialize. All of those things were hard for me, and well for many other little girls, because we were all LITTLE. We wanted to have fun and skip and laugh. Sometimes, if we were good, we were allowed to skip, but mostly ballet and fun did...
What is it about? About all the things that it isn't. About all the isn't that are. Are there things that are about something? Is it rude to question everything? because everything leaves me questioning it. because the questions I have involve and include everything and everyone. So what is it about? it isn't about what you think it is. it's always about what you think it isn't.
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