Chariots of Fire

     This is a movie about two athletes who join in the athletic events for two different reasons. The true story portrayed the story of two athletes from 1920s. First will be  Eric Liddell a devout Scottish christian who runs for the Glory of God and Harold Abrahams an English Jew who runs to overcome the prejudice. This movie showed how surrounding and environmental factors played important roles in motivating people to indulge and work hard to prove themselves. This movie also remind us people do not only involve in sports to get famous but there will be many intense feelings and thoughts deep in their heart.

     In this movie both characters was intrinsically motivated to join and achieve in their respective competitions. Both Liddell and Abrahams had different reasons to motivate them to take part in the running competition. Liddel sees his ability as a gift from god therefore he used his ability without failing even after his sister failed to support him for not being able to attend a prayer in church accidentally. Abraham was motivated as a reaction to antisemitism that he was not happy with. this brought the fire in him to prove himself as an athlete. high level of intrinsic motivation was outstandingly portrayed in the movie when Liddell was pushed by another participant during a competition. Even after falling down Liddell did not give up but have managed to win in that competition. Here I was able to see the ability to overcome the challenge because he was goal directed.
     Another aspect that can be linked and observed was the "Need for Achievement" by McClelland. when all these traits and behaviour was shown by both of the characters. Both of them had a strong need to set and accomplish challenging goals and Takes calculated risks to accomplish their goals.So the strong need for achievement cannot be shown more clearly than this movie. I would link the same incident again when Liddell fell down. It will be impossible for most of the athletes even though they are trained well. There are more than training needed for such incidents to occur.
    Besides that, I could feel took this running as a journey towards self actualisation in Maslow's hierarchy of needs" when he actually says that he feels divinely inspired when running and "I believe that God made me for a purpose. There are also phrases that refers to God he used such as  "But He also made me fast, and when I run, I feel His pleasure." So, he actually use this to achieve self actualisation.
     This movie show that nothing comes easy. More hard work, motivation and sacrifices are needed to shine out.