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The last time I saw a movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal was Nocturnal Animals.
In the film, he uses the book as a sharp blade to rip through the old real images that his ex-wife tried to hide, and also tore open the gorgeous but hypocritical bourgeois robes; at the same time, after making the perpetrator feel his own pain, he also cuts off the aftermath that the other party is trying to make up for. road.
A gloomy, sensitive, and resolute man is more dangerous and vulnerable than the dark night.
But in "Iron Fist", he changed his old or gloomy or romantic image and played a full-blooded boxer.
Billy Hope, an orphan, is violent and aggressive in nature, with a fast left fist, he is very good at attacking, and his neck is always stretched forward, like a lion that can be furious at any time. At the beginning of the film, it was the moment when he eliminated the enemy in ten rounds and clamored to win the championship.
However, irritable people are actually fragile, and to break an irritable person, a mere verbal provocation can do it. Therefore, in the melee between the two sides triggered by verbal provocation, his wife was shot and killed. As fragile as Hope, he was still unable to save himself at that time, so a series of self-inflicted events happened one after another: self-defeating first, alcoholism and drug addiction came one after another, the manager betrayed, and the custody of his daughter was also deprived.
If you want to survive in a desperate situation, you must know that you must rely on your brain and resilience, not brute force and irritability. After that, he went to a boxing gym to try to find a job to make ends meet, and accidentally got the guidance of the coach of the boxing gym, so he began to work during the day and train at night.
Knowing only offense but not defense, the king of adrenaline, a tactical dwarf—“boxing is not about strength, but brains.” Coach Wells saw through Hope’s weakness at a glance.
Retreat is not for weakness, but for better offense.
So, Hope, who only knew how to use fists, knew how to use the technique of body dodge; Hope, who only attacked blindly before, learned how to defend more dexterously and accumulate strength for the next attack.
In the final, Hope faced off against his wife-killing enemy until the eleventh round. The enemy fouled Hope on his lower body, but was released by the referee. The arena where fist-to-meat has always been full of blood and energy, and the brute force has long been used up by the end. It is nothing more than relying on thoughts to support it, relying on a breath to support it, and Hope has finally learned how to rely on the brain to support it.
In the twelfth round, it was really a second before the bones flew away. I saw Hope dodging and throwing his left fist - still a very fast left fist, but no longer the one who only knew how to use brute force. Hope.
The altar never succeeds people, the altar only tests people; only those who can stand the fall are qualified to stand firm on the altar. And those who are always on the go, just mastered the method of how to "retreat" one step earlier.
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