Luvin1stdegree

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    This is a movie that is really made specifically for Americans, Americans that were around at the time of the 1980 Winter Olympics. I wouldn't expect any international interest.

     

    As most of you know I am not a hockey fan, but in 1980 (when I was 10 years old) I was a huge hockey fan for 2 weeks in February. Not just that one game but from the first to the last, I watched them all.

     

    You also have to have some understanding of what was happening in the world in 1979/1980 to understand the American psyche of the day. The Vietnam war had only ended less then 6 years earlier, our President was forced to resign his office less then 6 years earlier, we had American's being held hostage in Iran and we were in the midst of a cold war with the Soviet Union. Not to mention all of the economic ills we were suffering at the time. That Hockey game against our biggest "arch rival" in the world was HUGE.

     

    Think of it like this, a Canadian high school football team (American football) plays the NFL's Super Bowl champion and beats them. Would that have an impact on Canadian pride? Our Hockey team of the day was a bunch of college kids, most in their very early 20's and they played the best team in the world and beat them.

     

    Will this be an overly patriotic movie for the USA? Probably, but it wasn't made for Canadians or Mexicans or Russians or Germans. It was made for Americans. it was made for me. The me that was a 10 year old little boy that only knew of a world where Americans were taken hostage in foreign lands, where America "lost" a war we shouldn't have been in in the first place and where our President had to resign in disgrace. For that 10 year old boy, the "Miracle on Ice" was the first time that something give him pride in his country, pride to be American.

     

    Yes, I'll see the movie and I'll cheer just as loudly for them as I did that night they played. And I hope it's unabashedly, unashamedly completely roll your eyes sappily patriotic because that's what that moment in history was for me and for many Americans.

     

    There are some things that Americans take special pride in, these things shouldn't be viewed with contempt by citizens of other nations, this is one of those things. Let us have it, let us celebrate it. Celebrate it with us in friendship if you wish to but don't try to take it away from us.

    Very well said, VBG. Damn, I love the way you write!!