Kaysha Carrasquillo - Sugar

Kaysha Carrasquillo
10.17.16
Intro to Film Studies

Sugar

Sugar is a classic film directed by Anna Bowen and Ryan Fleck. This movie's plot is about a local Dominican baseball player named Miguel "Sugar" Santos, and was offered an opportunity to move to Arizona for training and moves up to Single A ball in Iowa. Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic aren't much different. So knowing the living conditions he faced, this opportunity seemed great, but it turns out different. 

Sugar had to make a life changing decision to move and leave all his family behind, but once Sugar moves to New York things go upside down. He had to find a job to support himself and find a place to stay. He was living in and out of many places and never really had somewhere stable. His dream was to play baseball and to continue his dream to be a big time player, but supporting himself was the problem, he had to get a job at a diner, and even had to go back to his old hobby, carpentry. Once this part of his life came a bit together he continued to play baseball.

This film made me have a different perspective on life and how things work out; watching this film I thought things would end up in a happy ending where he got his life together and would fulfill his dream to become a big time baseball player and go back to help support his family in Santo Domingo. But it didn't happen this way, he stayed in New York, continued working at the diner, and played on a local baseball team. I thought he would end up being a star baseball player because this was his dream, but in my opinion he settles for less. Although I still side with the thought that the ending should have been different, I also believe that Miguel stood in New York because he found his happiness, yes he was far from his family but he had much more now. He had a job, a girlfriend and he continued to play baseball on a local team, even though he didn't become a famous baseball player. He still found happiness and he shows that at the end of the movie as he cracked a smile and began clapping. 

Although this was a great movie, I feel like the ending was horrible, it should have ended in a more fairy tale way, where everything fell into place but it didn't. But then again I feel like it ended in a more reality type of way, giving a message that you can want something so bad but sometimes it's not meant to be that way.