You can’t avoid questions of race when discussing a situation such as that at the center of Emily Kuester and Brad Lichtenstein’s documentary Messwood. The title is the name that was coined when two high schools, a mile apart on the same street separated by a stream, joined forces to field a competitive football team. Shorewood High is predominately white and bolstered by the highest median income level in Milwaukee. Messmer High is predominately Black and saddled with a student body that can barely graduate half its senior class each year amidst gun violence and poverty. While bridging the gap between these two worlds with sport superficially appears a legitimate answer to widespread racism, however, sometimes these dynamics merely prove a means to an end.
That’s not to say the Messwood experiment isn’t successful on a person-to-person basis. By looking at the unlikely friendship between Messmer...
That’s not to say the Messwood experiment isn’t successful on a person-to-person basis. By looking at the unlikely friendship between Messmer...
- 11/16/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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