Running Brave (First Part Blog)

First of all, in the movie, Running Brave, we will see the true story of Billy Mill, which has an American Indian runner ho had the dream to run in the Olympics as a 10,000 meter athlete runner representing the U.S. nation and showing how a person of an inferiority minority group can success by never given up.

The story begin by presenting ho is Billy Mills and its origins, How a guy ho born in the Pine Ridge at South Dakota triad to achieve his goals. During the movie we can appreciate his different friends from his childhood, to hum he consider it his family, and friends and important people he meet in the University. . Over the whole movie we can see the dualistic experience with the internal and external journey that this guy have. It was always, Billy Mills, with his internal problems, trying to succeed and be accepted in an external world that prejudice him because of his indian origins.

Tanks to his good athletic performances as a child, he was awarded with becoming the first American Indian who go to college by wining a scholarship from Kansas University. This honor open hi a lot of doors and opportunity, and at the same time, show him with the reality of the world, drawing him out of his confort zone making posible to he to be confronted with a lot of external influences and prejudice, that will slowly build up to what Billy Mills was at the end of the movie. Here we can see how your internal journey can be forge by your external experiences.

For one reasons, during the life of Billy Mills, they were fews ups an downs that at the end make him stronger and self confident. It was a not easy task to him to interact with a lot of discrimination over him, up to the point that he was rejected by his closest friend in one momento of his life, just because he was in love with a white girl. In my opinion this is an excellent movie, based in a true story, to show the world how he should confront the bad external influences and having a good attitude them can make you a better person with out steeping aside you dreams and goals.