{"id":25367,"date":"2017-05-26T20:37:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T00:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=25367"},"modified":"2017-05-26T20:37:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T00:37:56","slug":"spirit-game-pride-of-a-nation-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/26\/spirit-game-pride-of-a-nation-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit Game: Pride of a Nation (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For the first time since the sport has been played around the world, the World Box Lacrosse Championships were held on an Indian Reservation.\u00a0 Spirit Game: Pride of a Nation explores the road to these championships, the sport\u2019s history, and what it means to the Indian nations.<\/p>\n

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Directors Peter Spirer and Peter Baxter take the subject and explore its roots, why it matters so much for the people who created it, and why they have fought so hard to get the championships on their reservation with full nation respect from the visiting teams.\u00a0 Other people involved in the sports discuss it and the championships themselves.\u00a0 The filmmakers use interviews with an array of people from players, to tribe members, and a variety of others.\u00a0 These interviews show different sides in terms of opinions and also teach a lot about the sport and where it came from, where each person talking about its origins see it as coming from.\u00a0 There are a few varying opinions which give the film more depth and shows a care for exploring every angle of its subject, something many documentaries look to want to avoid.\u00a0 Of course, this is all done from one perspective (or two given there are 2 directors), but it shows differing opinions and how these can be reached.<\/p>\n

The cast, or the interviewed people, is varied and know their stuff; their talks are interesting and show a depth to their opinions and knowledge.\u00a0 The film gives them the chance to talk, to express themselves.\u00a0 It also doesn\u2019t cut when someone gets uncomfortable or stumbles a bit, showing an unflinching look on each person, whether for better or for worse.<\/p>\n

The film is one of those that may seem like it is more meant for Lacrosse fans which it definitely is meant for, but it also has interesting information for people who do not know the sport at all.\u00a0 Going into it knowing almost nothing about Lacrosse, this reviewer actually found this film interesting and informative.\u00a0 It does have parts that may be going a bit overly long or too in depth for the casual viewer, but in general, it\u2019s an interesting movie.\u00a0 The people interviewed are passionate and interesting which sells this film as a good documentary to watch while the information contained shows its thorough research.<\/p>\n

Spirit Game: Pride of a Nation is a good, well-crafted documentary that is worth seeing to learn about Lacrosse or if one is really into the sport.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of those films should be interesting to watch for all viewers, but probably will only have a lasting effect on fans of the sport.\u00a0 The film well shot, with interviews, scenes at the championships, and sports scenes.\u00a0 It must be noted that full sections of the film are the game being played with commentators talking which felt like watching a sports channel\u2019s old reruns, something that lost this reviewers interest completely.\u00a0 However, the interviews and the rich history more than made up for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the first time since the sport has been played around the world, the World Box Lacrosse Championships were held on an Indian Reservation.\u00a0 Spirit Game: Pride of a Nation explores the road to these championships, the sport\u2019s history, and what it means to the Indian nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[292,974],"class_list":["post-25367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-documentary","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25369,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25367\/revisions\/25369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}