The soundtrack at the beginning of the movie is a melancholy Start A War. Under the light and windy guitar sound, he hums repeatedly with a deep voice, "I'll get money, I'll get funny again." Then The movie uses a lot of audio readings of Moby-Dick as the narration. The absent-minded father meets his youngest son in front of the stairs at the door of his home. From here, the film sets the tone. This is a positive energy film with sadness.
The movie puts three men representing different age groups together as father and son brothers, giving them the most typical failure.
An alcoholic father, who is deeply disgusted by his two sons because of domestic violence, there is nothing more defeated than such a father.
Brother Tommy, a gifted boxer, had a failed childhood. He became a soldier but was killed by friendly fire, and he always regarded them as his only brother. Such a cold to a little humble man with a childlike sense of justice. He left the army because his comrades were mistakenly killed. He walked towards the ring because he looked down on someone insulting the weak during training. He suddenly got the opportunity to stand on the stage of the fighting competition. Win competition prizes for the widows of comrades-in-arms. He was full of ridicule and anger towards the world, mocking the father who had given up drinking, did not accept any father-son tenderness, regarded his brother as a passerby, and spoke coldly to his brother. When he was gentle, the objects of his gentleness were the wives of fellow comrades who lived and died together and the old man who was destroyed by his merciless words after being drunk. He saw a familiar stranger in the eyes of his father who was drinking again, and he hugged the old man and said lightly. Appease the old father in his arms. Under his angry shell, he was full of tenderness, like a hedgehog standing up full of fear.
The way he treats challenges in life is like he knocks down opponents like him again and again, only punching more fiercely and violently. He didn't play music and didn't have much words. His answer to the world was to punch.
Brother Brandon, with a wife and daughter, a stable job, friends and students, he forgave the past peacefully. I don't think he is full of anger like Tommy, but because he has a small family of four in his life that he loves so much. But his life is actually as fucking as Tommy. So when his family faced bankruptcy because of his daughter's illness, even if everyone thought he was crazy, he went to the boxing ring again.
Brandon’s coach asked Brandon, "Why are we here? Brandon. Are we here to win? Answer me, if we don’t want to win, I’ll surrender for you and bring your wife back. Home. If you know that you can't beat him, you won't have a home."
Brother, in the stormy punches of the opponent, he finally found a chance to win the terrible opponent, his face was covered with bruises.
In the movie, the brothers finally defeated all their opponents in different ways and met in front of the final.
There is nothing surprising in the plot of the movie to the end.
In fact, when they stood together and my brother raised his fist and repeatedly landed on his brother, I knew that in this movie, my brother had already lost.
Behind the elder brother, there are his wife who is watching him, there are friends who mentor him, there are students and the principal boss who support him, the way that elder brother defeats everyone is different from the brother who relies on talent and anger, he relies on love and persistence. The younger brother is always alone.
All this determines their mutual victory or defeat in the movie.
When in the cage of the boxing ring, Tommy, whose shoulder was dislocated, was sitting in the corner with painful tears. He listened to the people outside the court calling his name like slogans, and they were cheering. He didn't understand why those audiences who were wearing military uniforms and regarded him as brothers could still cheer. It felt like he had lost everything when he knew that he had no hope of winning. Pain and humiliation destroyed him, and he asked "What?" full of trouble, as if he didn't understand why the world was so fucking like this group of spectators.
It’s like when I was in college, I guess the one thing I’ve heard over and over again is: "If life rapes you, you can’t resist, just enjoy it." I wonder if all teenagers must be so brutally held down. On the ground, he was beaten fiercely.
Tommy, who didn't want to enjoy, was knocked to the ground by his brother.
When the elder brother strangled his younger brother’s neck in a posture as if he was hugging his drunken father from behind, the elder brother repeatedly said in his ear, "I Love you, I Love you, Tommy." The
younger brother finally gave up, conceded defeat, and brought With a fateful taste.
The younger brother loses the game, and the younger brother will be taken away by the troops for fleeing the battlefield. The boy finally has nothing. But maybe the shell of anger has been broken, and when Tommy starts to treat the world with tenderness, the world will be more tender to him.
The brothers helped each other down the ring, tears of heroes in each other's eyes.
So far I was deeply moved.
In fact, the film’s performance is plain and realistic, and the plot is not unexpected. It is about the heroic model of a typical American film, the down-and-out of ordinary people, and the family with unbearable failures. Using the model of the American dream, it has completed self-salvation. And self-realization.
Millions of Baby, Fight Club, Rocky, etc., these movies are all in this mode.
But it is precisely this plain way of expression, combined with the sports spirit embodied in the fighting itself, to perform a dramatic sublimation on the universal character's character, making the process of watching the movie not boring and touching. Emotion-Fighting-Emotion-Fighting, the cycle of this pattern makes the violent elements that attract the eye full of emotions, which is an important reason for the enduring high scores of this type of film.
This movie is different from other movies of the same genre. It simultaneously portrays three men, younger brother, older brother and father. The failure modes of different ages, the persistence and hard work of different ages, the audience is more diversified. Family friendship and love are all manifested in the movie one by one.
When I was 20 years old, I felt like I was Tom. I lived with my anger towards the world and a burning love for a small group of people. I imagined that I would be a hero. The emotions that need to flow from my chest make me talk to the world in a sarcasm. More often, I don’t want to talk. My endless anger turns into violence. He makes me want to use it all the time. Fist wins the world.
And as I became an adult, the more things that made me soft and human, I became more like a middle school teacher teaching physics, accustomed to a stable and warm life.
So, maybe when a man gets old and no longer has power, maybe one day I will also become the coward who was destroyed by life, alcoholism and domestic violence, when finally time to appease my dissatisfaction with all that, I fell into the self I used to be. In deep regret, I started to abstain from drinking and prayed for the children's forgiveness, but it was too late.
I saw my brother as if I saw myself, and I saw my brother, that was the goal I worked hard for. And what a man can never give up is your responsibility.
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