This movie called ‘42’ was released back in 2013, giving a look back at 1946’s U.S.A., that country where apartheid was implemented everywhere. Brian Helgeland pictured and captured the essence of Jackie Robinson, an African American baseball player who, thanks to his talent, persistency and braveness, got to stand up as the first black man to play at baseball leagues.

The development of this movie is focused on how talent and reputation can overcome any prejudice. It’s undeniable that things like sports, arts, or anything that fits into championships or award ceremonies are important because countries and cities love to be represented by talented people that stands out their nationalism and pride. With that said, even though the apartheid didn’t care about talent, Branch Rickey who was an American baseball player, later an Executive, saw the potential that Robinson got, and made the innovative also risky decision to take him at the Mayor Leagues with the rest of his team: Dodgers, which obviously was an all-white team.

The film was well received by the critic, for Colin Covert from Minneapolis Star Tribune, was “A valuable history lesson, a tricky drama that touches all the emotive buttons and an inspiring picture of a true American hero”. 

For me it’s impossible not to talk about the wonderful work of Chadwick Boseman, who showed the frustration and anger of the fact of being careless and showing you're better than someone who's yelling at you and humilliating your whole race just because of his superiority ideology.

At an interview made by Bonnie Laufer Krebs in 2013, Helgeland was asked about this actor who assembled Jackie and said “When Chadwick came in he was the second person to audition for the part and there's a very difficult scene in the middle of the movie […] he was very specific, the choice was a very dramatic scene and a lot of actors would play it down the middle […] so he chose a very specific way to go, which I think was the right way to go and is how we did it in the film as well, […] and I thought ‘he's a brave actor and he's going to play a brave man so it was a good start and a good indication of his willingness”.

In my opinion, 42 is a movie that you must watch because of it’s historical relevance, the understanding of the racism in the past and a regimen as mean as the apartheid it’s one of the keys to build awareness and reasoning against this imaginary ideology of colorcast superiority which we have to abolish.