Movie Review: Friday Night Lights: B

As a reward for getting everything finished this week, I treated myself to a movie: Friday Night Lights, which was pretty decent. It was based on an actual story of a high school football coach in Texas, played by Billy Bob Thornton, and the team he took to the state championship game in 1988. In a way it was depressing, though. Apparently life in many west Texas towns revolves around the local high school football team. Consequently, absurd pressure is placed on 17-year-old kids to win. As portrayed in the movie the entire town of Odessa Texas seems to consist of nothing but men who used to play football and who split their time about evenly between crying over their lost glory and making their sons' lives miserable by living through them.

At any rate, I finished my abstract algebra take-home and got back my classical mechanics exam, which I didn't screw up quite as badly as I had feared (89).