Hoop Dreams Perhaps the most basic and essential function of a movie is to evoke a particular response in its viewer. While watching the documentary Hoop Dreams, I have discovered this movie to be distinctly influential to the lives of many young men and women as it portrays the American dream. It involves two young men who reside in the housing projects in Chicago. Each has been given the great opportunity to attend a private …showed first 75 words of 439 total…

…showed last 75 words of 439 total…social analysis that is interpreted through the rise and falls of these young men. Their qualities set them apart from the rest of their society. These young men have been taken out of the ranks society has put them in, and brought them together with opportunity and desire in order to better their lives. I believe this documentary forms a bond with the viewer, by relating similar personal experiences to the experiences of these men