Reflection on "Running Brave" and Identity

The identity of someone is one of the most important aspects in our life. Identity is the fact of being whom or what a person or even a thing is. Referring to an essay from Peter Roberts called “Identity”, a person identity can be found on heritage, language, and nationality, by its home town or even by its color. Not knowing your identity is like not knowing yourself. If you lose your identity then you are forgetting who you are and what you like. By having this situation, of losing your identity, then you must do whatever it takes to find yourself again even if you had to quit everything you’re doing because the identity I yourself. The real one inside, the one that we as people are known for. In the movie “Running Brave” we can detect that Billy Mills had an identity crisis were for some point he lose himself.

              In the movie Billy Mills loves to run, it’s his passion and who he is. By running he felted free and with no worries he would run and forge everything else except for running. In the film after he won some matches his coach said to him to always since the start to be first. The coach was trying to change his style of running at the same time his identity. After Billy realize that he wasn’t himself anymore he did everything to find himself again. He disappeared from the university and the team to come back home. He came back to find himself to be him. Also to find the love on running again. It was a hard journey because in the time he was in his hometown his brother shoot himself and died but at the end he founded himself also the love to run. Then he accomplished his long time goal to run at the Olympics but not only to run but to break a record.