The Fighter is it a new boxing movie as there are already hundreds ... We remember Gentleman Jim , Ragginger Bull, Rocky , Ali, Million Dollar Baby ? Boxing is arguably the sport most widely represented in film and it is easily conceived as the ring, this square space grid and open to panoramic, is conducive to the camera movements that revolve around the actors like raptors over a carcass. In 1894, Edison's Kinetoscope also testa (an early film projector) during a boxing match. This enthusiasm also stems from the scope of the narrative story of a boxer, a man who has often been extirpated from its industrial environment, as here on the outskirts of Lowell (Massachusetts) used to be the birthplace of famous spearhead of the Beat Generation Jack Kerouac , found fame fleeting and eventually into oblivion the crooked nose and face streaked wounds. As Roland Barthes said ' What is thus delivered to the public, the great show of pain, defeat and justice '.
To interpret a boxer, Philippe During recalls in his book , you must become a boxer, to acquire the physical ability, transforming his body, making it dry or deformed as De Niro in Ragginger Bull , expand it and shape it. Under the camera of David O. Russell (Three Kings ), Mark Wahlberg has managed this feat. He became Micky Ward, a famous boxer in 90 years that atypical drop your arms even when he was a second-class boxer and managed to tu peaks. Wahlberg moreover always wanted to bring this story to the screen. To do this, he did not hesitate to train for over three years. Result: it is credible and blows on it is far from slapping movie banging in a vacuum. To prove this splendid final scene that mimics the dodging loan, the real fight against Shea Neary for the title of world champion WBU. A boxing brilliantly filmed, without slowing, without bluster, it's pretty rare to be underlined.
The Fighter includes all the features such as: dense form of film noir, aesthetics glaucous, suburb, melancholy, colorful entourage, for pathos, but it also moves away because he does not do its main subject. He speaks more than a family fight, more love than sports. It is above all a great story of friendship between two brothers united to face the pain. For his career, Micky Ward owes mainly to his brother Dicky Eglund ( Christian Bale), a former boxer took from hell crack and genuine local celebrity who had been in his time, the privilege to shake the great Sugar Ray Robinson. While everyone he advises Micky insists that his brother continues to lead even if we go back in the infamous slums where he surrenders to dependence. Micky Ward is in awe of his big brother and is junkie does not alter the case. It stays straight and stoic in the position of the listener's voice, it was dementia. What about Christian Bale, extreme makeover, he had to lose 30 pounds for the role, changing his voice, his accent, to reinvent the gesture of another. It is phenomenal, so much it completely displaces Wahlberg and he should really have won the Golden Globe for best leading man and obviously not that of the second part. It's a real surprise (to us) and revelation. Without ever taking her character in the trenches of ridicule, exaggeration and pathos, Bale signed a memorable interpretation.
The atmosphere of the film, though it owes much to him, is also supported by a wonderful group of actors, the mother figure intrusive, dictatorial, alcoholic and an inveterate smoker is played by an actress amazing Melissa Leo, who also, she also won the Golden Globe for best supporting actress, actress Amy Adams in the role of the girlfriend authoritarian and 7 sisters improbable hairstyles, fringe, puffs, curls and discoloration of all kinds, delicious. All carry the film to a level that exceeds the mere mention of a destiny of 'Just Do It' (for documentary evidence that Dicky imagines to revive his career and that will only expose the dangers of crack) there is going to a social satire, the painting of an era that is reminiscent of the New Hollywood American cinema of the 70s Scorsese, Coppola , etc ... Lucas The staging was to be assigned prior to Aronofsky before he politely declines is a rare sobriety, d a gritty realism that does not pay into caricature and that splitting of one aspect documentary manages to capture the peculiar humanity of these men touching self-sacrifice and humility. The few lengths of the film will evaporate quickly in the memory.
in France Release Date: 09/03/2011
Release date in Belgium: 30/03/2011
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