Field of Dreams
The movie I have selected for my film review is Field of Dreams. I feel that it is a great movie, and is an outstanding form of popular culture. There are many different events that take place throughout this film that show this. Field of Dreams stars Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones. Costner plays a guy named Ray who, one day while working in his cornfield, hears a voice. The voice tells him, "If you build it, he will come". After he hears the voice a few times he tears down his cornfield, and builds a baseball field. Jones plays a retired author named Thomas Mann. Mann hears these voices also, and understands what Ray is going through. Reluctantly Mann goes along with Ray. After awhile-old members of the White Sox, who got banned from baseball for life, appear out of the cornfield. They now have a chance to play ball again. Mann ends up going back into the corn with the players in the end. This movie is more than just a movie about a sport. It has many other significant meanings. First of all, this film shows loyalty between Ray's wife and him. Most wives would think their husbands were crazy if t
The third point this film makes is it allows the dreams of the players to live on. Still another point this film makes is in the world of relationships. His father was the one who would come back if he built the field. It shows how she believed in him when no one else would listen. Ray is aware that it is his father. Being a huge baseball fan this movie shows everything that is right about baseball. Lots of fathers and sons don't have good relationships with each other. People having dreams are what make the world happen. The second point this film shows is how much Ray loves baseball. Baseball has been a major part of American society and culture since the late 1800's. One scene shows Ray on a tractor as he is plowing a field in preparation for the building of the stadium. This could influence people to make things happen while the opportunity is still there, and to not waste the time they have. I believe a lot of Americans liked seeing that type of commitment between two people, especially in a world where it's not as prevalent as it should be. He realizes that is what the voice was telling him.
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