Mehki_Girl
Joined Nov 2004
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Saw this with my husband in the afternoon. Really playing on only one theater, AMC.
I thought it was a movie about boxing and I've always liked heavy weight boxing. Nope, it's about bodybuilding, but way way, way more than that.
It's a movie about the human condition - mental illness, marginalizaton, depression, uncontrollable anger, living with overt and subtle racism, societal class warfare, poverty, desire, ambition, sexuality, sexual dysfunction, the human need to matter, to be heard, to be seen.
About being socially awkward and weird and not understanding how your intensity frightens people, but also knowing and seeing that a big black man scares a certain segment of society.
The main character wants human connection, but clueless how to achieve it. He's ruining his body trying to achieve greatness. He wants. He wants. He wants. And then when he gets what he wants, he freezes... is taken advantage of, but he still reaches out.
Without spoiling the ending. I'm glad it ended that way. I really don't think I could have taken it otherwise. Way too deep and emotional and intense of a movie.
Jonathan deserves and Oscar!
I thought it was a movie about boxing and I've always liked heavy weight boxing. Nope, it's about bodybuilding, but way way, way more than that.
It's a movie about the human condition - mental illness, marginalizaton, depression, uncontrollable anger, living with overt and subtle racism, societal class warfare, poverty, desire, ambition, sexuality, sexual dysfunction, the human need to matter, to be heard, to be seen.
About being socially awkward and weird and not understanding how your intensity frightens people, but also knowing and seeing that a big black man scares a certain segment of society.
The main character wants human connection, but clueless how to achieve it. He's ruining his body trying to achieve greatness. He wants. He wants. He wants. And then when he gets what he wants, he freezes... is taken advantage of, but he still reaches out.
Without spoiling the ending. I'm glad it ended that way. I really don't think I could have taken it otherwise. Way too deep and emotional and intense of a movie.
Jonathan deserves and Oscar!
