Love Lessons From Our Favorite Spike Lee Joints
“He Got Game”
Love can overcome anything
Watching Jake Shuttlesworth (Denzel Washington) try to win back the affection of his son Jesus (Ray Allen) was painful to watch. You could sympathize with both characters. Jake was fighting to establish a relationship with his son. But Jesus had every reason to hate his father considering he unintentionally killed his wife and Jesus’ mother during a heated argument. There was so much dysfunction in their family. But the two bonded over basketball. Jake was ruthless in his efforts to get his son to forgive and let him back into his life. And even though their story is not wrapped up in a neat bow at the end of the movie, you know they’re moving in the right direction. From this film we learned that the strongest love doesn’t have to be the romantic kind.
