Although this is a film from the poster to the opening and even throughout the whole film is boxing, but boxing really exists only to advance the story. I don't deny that the main character's life turns, ups and downs are all related to boxing, but what Scorsese really wants to tell is a man with low self-esteem and extremely sensitive, who is influenced by negative emotions and follows the story of self-destruction and resistance.
The first boxing match at the opening was lost because of insider manipulation, so he vented his anger on his wife. Using the overcooked steak as an excuse, the two of them fought indiscriminately, and the table and plate were shattered. When the younger brother came to persuade him, Jack grabbed his wife's hair and threw her into the bedroom, still cursing. Character traits such as irritability, violent tendencies, unreasonableness, and stubbornness come directly to the audience. But if that's all, we'll just think it's because he lost the boxing match, and he's always looking for an outlet.
Then, I got to the most beautiful girl on the street at that time. The whole process is completely a master of flirting with girls: first, use a luxury car to attract the attention of the girl; then take the girl for a ride, and let the girl be close to him in the car; then go to his father's house, and reveal that he is very rich during the conversation. The scene of the two in front of the table is a classic. First, the two of them sat face to face, and the camera gave the front and back shots. It was a very ordinary dialogue scene. Jack told the girl that she was sitting far away from the other side of the room. The factual description and exaggerated rhetoric directly amused the girl and made the latter move to the side. After that, Jack said he could get closer, and then he guided the girl to sit on his lap with his hands. The tone of voice is relaxed and the action is skillful, and it is properly a master of love.
Of course, the girl is not vegetarian. Although she is not young, and according to Jack's brother's description, she is not the kind of woman who can fall asleep easily, but when we think about her situation with Jack, it seems that Jack is actively guiding every step. If something went wrong, Jack wouldn't sleep with her. Just like the "ten" that Wang Po said to Ximen Qing. That is to say, the reason why Jack was able to sleep with Vicky on the first date so smoothly was entirely because Vicky wanted him to sleep with him. Oh, a good one takes the retreat as the advance! This is called chess meeting opponents.
But even so, is Vicky's life better after marriage? Just because he casually said that the young boxer was handsome, he was kicked out of the restaurant by Jack, and even his younger brother could see that Jack was deliberately trying to find fault. And in the ensuing game, Jack tried his best to attack the opponent's face, all of which were smashed, just because he said "good-looking". Because he said hello to his former friends in the bar, Jack woke himself up in the night when he was asleep, just to ask if he had thought about other men in bed. Because he kissed his friend goodbye, Jack slapped himself without mercy.
Until Jack heard that the younger brother had a fight with the "boss" and his friends for himself. Jack was furious, but he calmly asked his brother if he had sex with his wife. The younger brother didn't think it was very absurd, and thought that there was no way to communicate with this elder brother who was full of jealousy. So Jack pressed Vicky, the dirty words and fists made Vicky collapse and said a lot of angry words. Just because of these frivolous words, Jack decided that Vicky had cheated on him, and he rushed into his brother's house and beat him up, and the two brothers became bad friends. And Vicky, again, forgave her, even with the scar he had just slapped on her face.
If he fell into such a situation of doubting the people around him every day, Jack would have been betrayed by the people long ago, but fortunately there is still a boxing.
Boxing gave him glory, money and status, all of it. It's almost impossible to flirt with a girl, pretend to be a force, and boxing. And his improvement in boxing skills has reached the realm of free will. He can deliberately release water until the opponent finds a flaw and kill him with one blow; he can also speak madly, and then achieve the brilliance he bragged on the field; he even keeps his opponents in order to prove that he has a good life and no longer needs boxing. attack. For him, boxing is as effortless as breathing. It is precisely because of this that he is unscrupulously jealous and suspicious, domestic violence, abuse, destroying his family, and incidentally offending relatives. He didn't think about these consequences, but he knew that he still had boxing.
I saw someone say that this movie is about the self-destruction of the boxer, and the self-redemption. I only agree with the first half of the sentence. He got everything and buried it all with his own hands for character reasons. Later, he opened a bar, and every day he told some old-fashioned jokes at the opening to amuse himself: so some people say that he finally saw it and understood that boxing is only a part of life, he learned how to "live", Because if it weren't for his boxing career, he wouldn't have become so violent, and his family life would have been smoother. So what is life. Does he eat, drink and sleep? It doesn't matter if he is a boxer or not. And in the same way, if it weren't for boxing, he wouldn't be the center of capital and media, sports cars, luxury homes, beauties, these have nothing to do with him, if he never owned them, can he really appreciate their preciousness. So, he ended up reciting a line from Marlon Brando in "The Wharf" behind the scenes:
What does he want to say. The most regrettable thing in the world is "I could have". Some people were born to box (or whatever). Once they leave this field, what's the point of the shriveled soul, just for the sentence "xx is not the whole of life".
By the way, Robert's acting skills are really good, and he is full of professionalism. In order to play a middle-aged and downcast appearance, he has to eat a big fat man. And Joe Pesci and him, the two are a golden partner.
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