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Sep 11, 2013phantomas rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
"After high school, I'm gonna play football at Notre Dame." Everyone huddled around the TV laughed at Rudy Ruettiger when he made that statement, except for his friend Pete. And Rudy trudged on, living a life everyone else thought he should, and each day, he died a little more inside. Then Pete died, and Rudy tried to escape. "Chasing a stupid dream...causes nothing but you and everyone around you heartache," his dad said. "My whole life, people have been telling me what I could do and couldn't do. I've always listened to them, believed in what they said. I don't want to do that anymore," said Rudy. This is Rudy's point-of-no-return. This is where the story really takes off, and we (the viewers) are left trying to answer one question, "is this an example of a delusion or persistence of vision?" Whenever I feel like Sisyphus, I put on this movie, and I remember these lines, "In this life you don't have to prove nothing to nobody except yourself. And after what you've gone through, if you haven't done that by now...it ain't gonna never happen." Watch the movie.