Blog 7

The theme of the movie Friday Night Lights is that in life you can't always win. This theme is portrayed in the scene I posted. Boobie Miles was a sensational running back for his high school football team but then got hurt and the injury ended not only his high school career but his college one before it even started. This is a didactic scene because you see the sadness in the car when Boobie and his father are crying.

This scene from Friday Night Lights uses shape and space very well to portray the overall theme of the movie which is you can't go undefeated in life because mistakes happen.

In the beginning when Boobie Miles is cleaning out his locker the camera movements are very shaky which I believe can symbolize what is going on inside Boobie. His feelings are very shaky and unstable because of his injury. You can then see actual and virtual lines when his teammates are looking at him then because of shame they look at the ground. Actual lines are shown by the lockers and the doors in the background. Even when they cut to the shot of the coaches in their office they have a mesh of vertical and horizontal lines. There is also the use of virtual lines which are the lines from Boobie's eyes to his teammates. And when his teammates look away you notice the virtual lines disappear.

After the locker room they go to the parking lot where Boobie's father is waiting in his car to pick Boobie up. When Boobie is walking out you notice the mixture of horizontal and vertical lines with the brick wall, fence, and the bleachers. That shot also creates a sense of deep space with the bleachers all the way in the background. Symbolizes that he is walking away from football and a big future and then he walks into the tiny car. Then you see Boobie crying through the crack of the window between the window and car. Then the last two shots are important. The first one is a long shot of them in the car. Then the last one is a very long shot of them in the car of an empty parking lot to show how alone him and his dad really are now.