The Williams method: the success of a family behind the racket

The Williams method is the biopic about the life of the Williams family and his role in the sporting success of Venus and Serena Williams.

The first hour of footage focuses on the father figure, Richard Williams, played by Will Smith. This father, traumatized by his family experiences, in which poverty and racism have been very present, will fight throughout the film to fulfill his dream of transcending history. He will try it through his daughters.

Together with his wife Brandy (Aunjanue Ellis), he will manage to form the team and the African-American dream that was never fulfilled for him. It could have been the story of two toys broken due to excessive pressure, but it wasn’t like that. Not just one, but two of his daughters became the best tennis players in history.

The Williams method: if you hesitate, you lose

The Williams method It expresses all the wisdom that someone who considers themselves a failure can have: that of insisting, over and over again, on the aspects that would have made their dream laudable. Richard Williams is the kind of father who wants for his daughters what he never had.

Many sports and art figures develop a career only out of interest or the will to surpass the successes of their parents. However, here parents are probably not so demanding. They have already achieved success, and they do not need to prove their worth through their children.

However, parents with frustrated dreams tend to be more constant and demanding. Something that often turns directly into cruelty and hostility, but that does not happen in this film. In some way the idea is defended that it is not wrong to push your children to excellence as long as they have a natural talent. It also points out the hope for a better life for the subsequent generation.

In the film, Richard Williams leaves nothing to chance when it comes to work and merit. To do this, use a track full of trash if necessary. He is a pushy father, but the movie shows something that sometimes happens: if you fight, you can get it. Furthermore, if your family knows how to support you, the probability of this happening increases.

An incessant discourse that the family internalized

While the film leaves us in no doubt about Williams’ courage and wit, it doesn’t hold back in depicting his arrogant ego, non-stop chatter, and exhausting optimism. At times, it can be so insufferable that it makes us wonder how her daughters and specifically her careers survived. But, on the other hand, if it had not been like that, we wonder: who would have fought so hard if it were not him?

The film does not talk about the wife and children he is said to have abandoned before marrying Brandy, the mother of his five daughters, including Venus and Serena. Nor is there any mention of his divorce and his marriage to a woman only a year older than Venus.

Emptiness that can hardly be turned into reproaches, given that these events occur outside the timeline of the film. In return, The film focuses on the rise to glory of an African-American family with just one dream..

During the narrative, the father’s speech seems like that of the entire family. Only he appears to be the most involved. The family remains united in the rise of the tennis players, worrying about their education beyond racket training.

Parents, in search of a future for their daughters, do not play everything with a single card, but rather they know what is necessary to win the game. The childhood and adolescence of your daughters must be protected. The way to protect your dreams is to form them in every way.

The spirit to achieve this is that the family is above everything. With her dreams, her games and knowing how to take care of each daughter in particular with her faults and virtues.

Two sisters who play, but do not compete with each other

The Williams method also shows the evolution of Venus Williams. It’s the story of her rise to glory, with Serena Williams’ growth in the background. The latter is the one that gives rise to the most intense moment of the film’s drama and the one that arises through a simple conversation that predicts Serena’s subsequent success.

She will be the best of all time, as her father predicts in that conversation. The times for both tennis players will be slow, each one will have their moment. In the film we only see the beginning of Venus Williams’ (Saniyya Sidney) career. She does it by following the real story in such a way that Spanish viewers are sure to get a good surprise on screen. The glory days of Arantxa Sánchez Vicario will be reflected, with the resulting nostalgia for the spectators.

That’s when The Williams method It focuses more on its nature as a sports drama, but it knows how to do it with the necessary emotion so that what doesn’t matter doesn’t matter. During his career, Both sisters will be involved in different controversies, but neither of them will break their union..

The Williams sisters not only fulfill their father’s wish, but that of the entire family and that of millions of black girls. Furthermore, he reminds us that sisters can have the best friendship and companionship with each other for life.

The Williams method It is a fighting movie in every sense, but with a fresh and entertaining wrapperperfect to end a hard day when you also find yourself fighting for your dreams.

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