old boy belated youth

Every man will have a great desire to make achievements and create extraordinary things. This is especially true for John, who was born in a prestigious family. Standing in the ruins of the battlefield where countless soldiers died during the American Revolutionary War, and looking at the brave and fearless heroes, made his blood boil. However, the fading family left him and his mother empty, and the mother devoted her whole body and mind to the horse. He wants to take on the glory that this family has earned through countless generations of struggles, and lead him to restore glory and even become a spiritual idol in the United States. Then he found the down-and-out wrestler Mark, willing to train him to become a world number one. The two hit it off and quickly threw themselves into the preparations for the World Championships. Mark, whose parents divorced since childhood, has been living a life of displacement with his brother, practicing wrestling together, and living on his brother when he grows up. Living under the protection of his brother, the 27-year-old, like a minor, is eager to break free from his brother's wings and prove himself. When John approached him and showed the grand prospect that lay before them, he knew the opportunity had come.

Yet John couldn't teach him anything. He doesn't understand wrestling, and all he can provide is venue equipment and a lot of money. Instead, Mark was teaching him how to wrestle, and he was more of a sponsor than a coach. The lack of their own friendship experience made them form an unequal friendship between the rich second generation and the poor diaosi during the training process. The rich second generation showed him the charm of being rich in drugs and alcohol, and asked Mark for his gold medal. Poor Diaosi hopes to win his friendship by proving his worth. Mark really regarded him as a friend, drinking and taking drugs together, which was a big taboo for athletes. What John longed for was a gold medal, a moment in history, and he even went to wrestling for it. In the game, in order not to dampen John's enthusiasm, Mark even bribed his opponent to let him take the first place. Just like John's mother did. However, the shrewd and sharp mother found at a glance that wrestling was just her son's new toy, and that the trophy was just another model train.

The mother's attitude hurts John's self-esteem, so he hurts Mark's. He was as anxious as a child to recruit Mark's older brother Dave to lead the team, and he didn't care that the act would shatter all the confidence Mark had built up after leaving his brother for a real victory. After losing the game, overeating, he was never by his side, never said a word of consolation. It was around then that Mark realized that he had never been John's friend. Realizing that John could neither lead himself to the first place nor consider himself a friend, Mark couldn't bear to be at the hands of the fox hunter one more day. His departure made John's already gloomy face even more unhappy. Listening to the hypocritical rhetoric in the documentary, of course, as a client, he clearly knows that he is not a coach at all, and he has not led to change anyone, let alone a spiritual mentor, American Idol. He compromised, accepted, and gave up.

However, he attributed the mistake to Dave. The last scene of the documentary is the image of the two embracing when Mark won the world championship, which is the closest to John's dream. However, it was Dave's arrival that ripped it apart, it was Dave's failure to train Mark that made them lose so completely, it was Dave who ruined his friendship with Mark, and it was Dave who ignored the team for his family's sake. Training so that the fox hunter will never fulfill his dream. He took out a gun and pointed at Dave, shouting, "Did I offend you?" He indiscriminately distorted all Dave's actions, and he didn't care about the motives of Dave's actions, he only cared about the results, he only knew Dave's appearance destroyed everything, and he had to root out the source of this tragedy, which also brought an end to his exhausted life. The paranoia and arrogance of the young man are vividly reflected at this moment. To some extent, this is the price of youth. But for John, this youth came too late, and it cost him his life.

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