42 was a really good movie, about a great ball player. Jacki Robinson was the first black man to play major league baseball. This film tells his story, and the trouble he went through because he was black. This was during the time where there were separate bathrooms for black and white people, so the idea of having a black ball player was hated by everybody in the league. The story of this film is truly inspirational, and it felt real. I thought that they did a great job telling it as it was. It was extremely well acted too. I expected the guy who played jacki Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) was the guy who would give an Oscar worthy performance, but it was actually Harrison Ford who in my opinion should get an Oscar nomination for this. He played the role of Branch Rickey so well, and I probably wouldn't have thought that it was he. So overall the story was well told, and the movie was really well acted.

The story mostly revolves around the 1947 season of the Brooklyn Dodgers. At the time there were only 400 MLB players, and they were all white. They took one player out of the league, and put Jackie Robinson in to replace him. He became the first ball player in the league to be black. Pitchers were throwing at his head a lot, and he would duck. He had a hot temper and they had to teach him not to fight back, and to just ignore it all. A lot of his teammates wanted to go on strike so he wouldn't play, but they refused to let him go. He was to good to be let go, and he became one of the great ball players of all time.

It is not a typical sports drama, because it tackles a real life issue in history. The treatment of blacks was very terrible at the time, and the discrimination levels were the worst. This film tells it like it really was. I like these true story sports films, and not the ones like Rocky. Films like 42 are the really good sports films.

The racial stuff in the movie made me feel awful, considering that stuff like this at one point was happening in the country I live in. Like there is one scene where Jackie is at the airport with his wife and they give their tickets away to a white couple. There was one part where a hotel wouldn't let the team stay there because of Jackie. Though this stuff is upsetting, you have to do it. What made the film so good was that they successfully showed what it was like for him, and that they were able to make you mad at times. A great film around a topic like this needs to tell it like it is, and it needs to anger you at times. This film did exactly that. This was a great film, and I loved every minute of it. It was a great true story, and the acting was great. Not your typical sports drama at all.