Eddie the Eagle... fly as far as you want

"The important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win, but to take part; the important thing in life is not triumph, but the struggle; the essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well" - Pierre de Coubertin. This is the real meaning about the the next movie we will talk about and before anything comes to your mind and judge by it cover, let's start saying this is not a another sports movie. It is a feel good movie for sure and even falls in most of the cliches of sports and feels good movies, all this just work to serve a story about life and pursuing your dreams and how this works in life not just as an advice for life or making decisions about but finding the right when everything goes wrong, to enjoy happiness when everybody is giving you a hard time and to believe in yourself and prove everybody wrong. And yes, this is also a biography about someone that most of us haven't heard, specially since it's based on an olympic athlete from the UK back in the late 80's. This is the story of "Eddie the Eagle" (2016), a young man that since got hurt and broke his knees when just a kid, decided we wants to go to the Olympics.

The same way we all have dreamed about becoming rock stars, or dancers, or firemen, he just had this thought in his mind and is decided to go after it. even when he shows having no talent in any of the potential sports. When time goes by and he starts growing up, its his own family, his father to be specific the one who asks him to stop trying and realize he has no talent, or any option to go to the olympics so it's time of him to start focusing in real life and his studies and helping him with the family business, being a Plummer. So after his first fall and he's about to believe all his fathers words a new realization pops out in his mind motivating him to keep trying and fighting for his dream just that now in a different way, focusing in the winter Olympics. This gives him a new opportunity to prove some talent and finally some trophies start to come, but again when he is ready to apply for sponsorship to go to the Olympics as a ski athlete the heads on the committee put a stop to his dreams again, explaining that he has no talent or opportunity to be an Olympic athlete and compite with excellence not just as an amateur.

So again, after his dreams has been crushed and seems that everybody insists on trying to prove him the opposite of he believes and wants, but he knows what he wants and he has te courage to fight for it and even feeling down, is not ready to give up, so again looking in to the light on the darkness he finds an answer on a competition that his country has no one applying for: ski jumper. So once he signs up for the training camp, reality starts to hit and his real challenge begins now trying, again and maybe for the last time to prove others wrong and to prove himself he can do it, even when trying it it's almost killing him but he is determined to fight for his dreams. Fortunately as many times in life life puts people in our lives for a reason, sometimes we don't realize their real propose till its too late or maybe in time to take advantage of that, so in this case he finally tarts getting some help and some friends that will teach him and support him in this personal challenge . What happens next you'll have to discover by yourself once you see this emotional experience, but what makes it really special and emotional is the slap in the face you get once you look back at your own life and realize how many times we give up on our dreams or we fall for what other have to say about us just because there own agenda when don't even know us.Sadly this kind of judgement tends to define many of us, but is our strength and being able to shut those voices down and listen to our inner voice , follow our heart, is what matters. Fight for what we believe will prove others wrong and those who really loves us and are capable of put their own insecurities on the side to let us be without copping us will prove what love really is.

And again, as many sports movies telling a story of an underdog coming to triumph, this will follow the book but that's just the story line to follow a personal journey, a man's challenge, a coming to age story, a fight for your dreams, and the courage to stand up for yourself, because here doesn't matter if you win but as the quote says, what matters is being part of, and all the process in between. Also the personification of the young Eddie, a shy young guy, that might look insecure but has more balls than anyone around him serves just to prove that what matters at the end its not your natural talent for sports, arts or any activity, but the ability of being humble enough to learn from your mistakes and listen to others. This talent made him also win worldwide attention when he proves he is not there for the medal but to the opportunity to do his best, and that charm gave him friends and recognition, something that lot of people lack these days when mostly seeking for popularity and losing being a genuine person to become a copy of someone else. And earning respect from all kinds of people is just a matter of time when proving them wrong with your real talent.

Life is a sum of moments, experiences that start building of for an end, all leading to somewhere that will test you just to take to another place, making new friends and surrounding by different people, some will help you, others will try to break you, but all of them are serving for a bigger propose, the big picture, a master plan, that we have been pursuing and has the only purpose to bring the best of us, and sometimes we won't listen ad follow it, being trap in others life and decisions, but if we smart enough to read the clues, and listen to ourselves will take you places we couldn't imagine otherwise. And when we get to that specific moment, will feel like flying and so peaceful and excited that we won't be able to describe or put words on it but just enjoy it and then share whit of those who believed in us. So this is a story about life and what achieve your goals means, using a sports based story that will make you feel good as any orgasm can do but you only will enjoy it if knows what it takes to get there, to fight for it and as Hugh Jackman, in his role as Eddie's coach and an old time athlete that gave up in the past for not being able to follow the rules and listen blinded by his own proud, said: it's like making love to your favorite celebrity, but you only know what i mean if you have tried before. Time to lose your virginity and start practicing!