Spellbound

In the Spellbound movie, all of the players deal with stress and recieve stress in different ways. While watching the movie I started to really like Neil and April. Through the competition both of their families and themselves deal with the stress in completely opposite ways. April comes from a warm family where her mother who practices with her daily is very encouraging and just overall proud that she even won just the spelling bee at her school. Her parents are both very supportive and although April is very pessimistic about her spelling capabilities, both of her parents are confident in her. April throughout the entire Bee was very self concious and cynical, which was the opposite of her parents being very optomistic. However, in contrast Neil's family was very high stress, Neils father put alot of unneeded pressure on Neil to win the spelling bee. Neils father if Neil wins is feeding children in India, however if he does not win then the children do not get food. I think that Neils father should never have put that much pressure on him to win the Bee, it is unfair to Neil and all of the children he would be feeding. Neils father also, is very pushy, always making Neil practice leaving no time for Neil to even take a breath. Although Neils father is much harder on Neil than Aprils, he still expresses how proud he is of Neil, even though he adds alot of unneeded stress to their Bee enviornment. In the end, both of the contestents are eliminated, however, both of them take the news fairly well, both familys are very proud of them and in the end although they would have liked to win, it really didnt matter in the end because they did a tremendous job.