In terms of plotting, this film tells the story of a pair of brothers: brother Brandon Conron and younger brother Tommy Conron from the ashes. The father of the two brothers is a retired Vietnam War veteran, but also an extremely good and cruel fighting coach. When the two brothers were young, he preferred his brother Tommy and ignored the training of his brother Brandon. At the same time, he had serious alcoholism and domestic violence. Although Tommy's record was very good, both brothers could not Enduring the abuse of his father to his mother, he conspired to take his mother away from home. But at the last moment, his brother Brandon left his brother and mother because he fell in love with the girl Tess (who later became his wife). Tommy took his mother and fled his father. The life of the mother and son was very difficult. In the end, his mother died because of no money to treat the illness. Tommy also joined the army and went to Iraq.
For more than ten years, Tommy appeared at his father's door again. At this time, his father was already a dilapidated old man who had given up drinking and went to church every week. Tommy asked his father to be his coach again to help him participate in the nearby iron cage fighting competition with the highest prize money in history. But what people didn't know at this time was that Tommy was actually a deserter. His army was accidentally annihilated by self-armed artillery (a real incident in the Iraq War), and he was the only one who escaped. He no longer believed in the justice of the war, and fled back to the country with anger. In the process, he also rescued another tank soldier who was in desperate situation, which became a clue to his identity later.
On the side of his brother Brandon, he is now a high school physics teacher loved by students, but because of his gullibility in bank loan managers, his house will soon be confiscated (a common situation in the United States during the subprime mortgage crisis). At the same time, he There is also a daughter with congenital heart disease who needs a large amount of treatment. He was desperate, except for training again, re-entering the ring, and participating in fighting competitions to win huge prizes.
This kind of plot background is obviously too deliberate in intention and flawed in details. But if we think about it this way, Hollywood movies are completely commercial operations, involving large sums of capital investment, and investors definitely need to pay back, otherwise they won't give you any more money next time. So when it comes to film creation, the final look of the work is not just what the creator wants, but the audience and the market must be taken into consideration. And the target audience of this fighting movie, generally speaking, is those young and middle-aged men who are active in the United States. Under the influence of hormones in the body and the real pressure of the outside world, they are more or less dissatisfied and need to be released. . And "the wealthy bankers on Wall Street who brought down the entire country's economy because of greed" and "governments that wage war for profit and ignore human lives" have always been their main targets; the ending family redemption is the vast majority of societies. The mainstream value shared with culture. The plot treatment of the film to please the target audience is based on accurate market analysis. Of course, it is also possible that the director and screenwriter themselves are "angry youths" who like to "spray" in the work, but this film is truly excellent and The parts that move us are the fists, muscles, blood and scars in the iron cage. I think if we choose to watch a commercial movie, there is no need to entangle and pick up these aspects.
Of course, this movie was quite sensational in the end, mainly due to the production of extremely exciting fighting scenes, including the two battles of Brandon VS Coba and Brandon VS Tommy. I have watched and cried repeatedly. I don’t hate the bankers on Wall Street, nor the Bush administration that launched the Iraq War. Perhaps my suppressed emotions in other areas have been released here, such as the love between two generations of family ties mixed with hatred. : As much love as you hate. Because it was the other person who shaped himself, yet destroyed himself; the other person kneaded himself into shape according to his own appearance and intentions, and then announced: Your appearance is ugly, humble, and ashamed, and I will never be proud of you. Whenever you think of the other party, it is difficult to suppress the resentment, but when you learn that the other party has suffered misfortune, you are so painful and sad that you can't wait to be replaced by yourself.
I saw a picture of Nietzsche hung in the office of Brandon’s coach, Frank, and the novel recording that the father of the two brothers often listened to was the American epic "Moby Dick." Nietzsche and Captain Ahab are both people who have extremely passionate hatred and love at the same time. In them, hate is sometimes a form of love, their life passion and strong will. The film has a warm and conventional ending. The love between the two brothers melts the painful past and hatred. Although our feelings in reality may be more complicated and subtle than this, and it is difficult to be redeemed like them, but no It prevents us from being moved and happy for them, and treats everything that life gives us with a more tolerant and indifferent mind.
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