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The movie Radio is about a young man who lives a very lonely life, he is introduced to a football team as he walks by a High school football teams practice. One day he is walking and suddenly gets struck in the head by one of their footballs. A student athlete asks for it back, but the young man does not listen. The athlete ridicules him, but the man is distracted by the ball, he puts it into a shopping cart and carries on with his walk. One of the football coaches’ notices this young man and sees him in a different perspective rather than a degenerate like everyone else. Coach Jones figures out that the young man likes to fix radios, he will even fix a radio, dissemble it, and put it back together; just for fun. This habit is what gave this young man his name, “Radio.” With this ability to fix radios the coach sees potential in this young man and wants him to be a part of the team, but in order for him to be allowed on the team he must be a student. Radio has no experience with …show more content…

Radio takes a story of depicting a mentally challenged man as an inspiration along with working with a big time football coach. Which depicts an average American lifestyle, some people do not like that they made this movie about a mentally challenged young man and made him into the star of this movie because it creates false accusations to real life situations. It stereotypes people who have mental disabilities, although some people with mental disabilities can be very talented not every person with a mental disability are able to have great stories and be able to have the knowledge that others do not have. The majority of the population with mental disabilities cannot stand a day in the real world by themselves, although many have special talents in certain things many cannot do day to day tasks or have an extraordinary talent in any type of task or

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