Race (2016)
Plot
This movie starts in 1933, just as Owens leaves his home in Cleveland to Ohio State University: he has a serious girlfriend, Ruth (Shanice Banton), as well as a young daughter, and he promises that he will soon be back with a wedding ring. It's not long until track-and-field coach Larry Snyder (Jason Sudeikis) notices Owens' gifts at the university, and it's just a few years away from the Olympic Games to be held in Berlin. But it is not clear if the United States will even participate: some observers in the States are pushing to boycott the games as word spreads of Hitler's ethnic-cleansing mission.
Avery Brundage (Jeremy Irons), Commissioner of Construction and President of the American Olympic Committee, travels to Berlin to check out the scene and meet with Nazis (among them propaganda honcho Joseph Goebbels, played, with cartoonishly glassy-eyed menace, by Barnaby Metschurat). After a handshake agreement that roughly translates into "Promise you're going to be cool about the Jews? "Brundage returns to the United States and reports to Jeremiah Mahoney (William Hurt), president of the Amateur Athletic Union and a strong supporter of the boycott, that the United States should send its athletes as planned.
Owens, of course, is ready to go, but he is also under pressure from various factions, including the NAACP, to vote out. In the end, he decides that it is better to challenge the Nazi obsession with racial purity than to withdraw from it, and that the four Olympic medals he wins on German soil, as Hitler looks frustrated, prove him right.
Pro
There's a scene where owen just ignored all the hatred for him and focused on what he's doing. In the end, the hatred of the football team softens into an insensitive crowd noise, and then into respectful silence. The movie depicts that no matter how hard the racism you faced, just ignore racism and racist attacks, and they'll go away, and leaving you to achieve your dreams in peace. [1]