s a filmmaker and a teenager I realized the message that the director was trying to show in this film. The lesson in this film was basically that things will get better as long as we don’t give up. People loose sight of that when chasing their dream or just trying to survive so they give up and lose the fight. Another thing I noticed was the fact that the first person in the family to talk to “Big Mike” was S.J. Recently, I saw a documentary demonstrating how as a child we hang out with all kinds of different races because we don’t see color as an issue when making friends, but as you get older you begin to hang out with your own race due to stereotypes you hear. The daughter in the film, Collins, didn’t really get close to Michael at first because of fearing what her friends will say. So I think by having S.J. talk to Michael first the director was trying to say that we should all see through the eyes of a child.