Love and Basketball

Gina Prince-Blythewood directed Love & Basketball with little experience at all. Having come from UCLA, where she ran track competitively, Prince-Blythewood had all the means possible to relate to this story. Since age seven, Prince-Blythewood was competing on team sports, being the only girl on the team. It is evident why she would make such a film, she wanted to convey the importance of female athletics, along with independence of women. The film takes …

…as they sit courtside watching her play. She got the best of both worlds. It is the strong feminist themes and gender comparisons that make this movie as powerful as it is. Gina Prince-Blythewood has done a tremendous job, not only making a great movie with good characters and a coherent storyline, but in touching issues that should be dealt with more often in cinema, the inequalities of women in this modern society of ours.