Boxing movies in the sports theme are often good movies, with "Raging Bull" on the top and "Million Dollar Baby" on the bottom, and "The Iron Fist Man", which is in the middle of the two, is also one of the best movies.
The film stars Russell Crowe as an old and frail boxer, Bullock, who is at a low point in his life and has lost his glory. The time focuses on the economic crisis in the 1930s. The Great Depression in the United States led to a downturn in the social economy, a large number of people were unemployed, living difficulties, employment difficulties, and so on. Boxer Bullock achieved a counterattack in his life at this time and achieved brilliant achievements.
The story takes place during the economic crisis of the last century, with a strong sense of the times. First of all, it is necessary to ensure that the audience will not feel the feeling of a play.
The film does this very well: the child is struggling to eat; the mother drinks water with milk; the abandoned house is demolished as firewood; Brock covers the injured hand with kerosene; Give it away; the electrician comes to the power outage and says he is going to be fired... The details all imply the impact of the poverty-stricken life brought about by the economic crisis.
In one of them, the children were sent away by their mother, and Bullock came to the boxing bosses and begged them for money one by one, in exchange for the children to return to the family. This detail is really touching.
The sense of the times is there, the atmosphere is there, then the most important character in the next biopic.
1. The film is shaped by the usual method of first depression and then promotion.
The miserable life and the sorrow of the old man
until the last to become the world champion.
2. Go deeper and deeper, not in a hurry or slow, solid and steady.
Since this film was shot by Chong Ao, it must be an academic aesthetic, and it is impossible to have a Cannes-style enigmatic indeterminate form.
Bullock goes through a narrative of low ebb (life constraints, being expelled from boxing) - development (accidental substitute participation, winning) - high (returning to the game, winning again) - ending (winning the battle, world champion) narrative, Solidly build characters and tell stories.
Biopics are ultimately the output of American values: unyielding, personal struggle to achieve the future.
Bullock is clearly exactly that kind of guy. The bottom-level life and unyielding struggle are also the reasons why people who watched him boxing in the film cheered for him. The power of the mind is far greater than the power.
It is worth mentioning that the supporting role who can steal the most drama is really not a blow!
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