In fact, I am very troubled when I see the lead actor: Russell Crowe, the role of the two-time Oscar-winning film emperor, is always so worrying. Just watching his "Gladiator" has made me scratch my heart, "Beautiful Mind" is also pinching sweat for him, and the protagonist's sense of defeat and victory in the trough step by step is like taking a file and rubbing it on the heart, my little heart can't stand the toss! As for the heroine Renee, I think her first starring drama was her first time to do the female first "Mr. Sweetheart", and she is also a woman who accompanies men to successfully counterattack. Well, obediently sitting in front of the screen waiting to be abused – the one who recommended me this film is the weird guy who doesn't give up on the dead.
The plot is actually not new to me, a person who has read countless inspirational films, and the process is definitely arduous, depending on what kind of meaning is contained in these adversities.
After James learned that his wife, Mea, had to send the children away, he first went to the welfare office to collect the benefits, found that it was not enough, and then went to the club to beg the agents inside. It is not difficult for this man to think that he is strong, to rise up against adversity, but what is really difficult is to make him admit that he really needs help, that is, to show his weak side, which requires greater courage than to show that he is strong. It is this courage that James shows in this moment, which is also the key quality of his final successful counterattack as a boxer - at the lowest point of fate, he can still be soberly aware of his situation and take active action. This is the same mentality as him watching the film of the opponent Max killing the boxer and asking for a replay and then watching it carefully, and watching the film again and again is to see the opponent's fist path and learn from the loser, which is what the real warrior does. What is a true warrior? It is described in detail in China's Chronicle of the Assassins. The courage of people is divided into four kinds: blood courage, pulse courage, bone courage, and divine courage, and in the past, Tian Guang praised Jing Ke: blood brave people, angry and red-faced, pulse brave people, angry and blue-faced, bone brave people, angry and white-faced, Jing Ke is a person of divine courage, angry and unchanged. The James played by Russell, including the gladiators, belongs to the angry and unchanging gods and brave people. Even Max, who can beat people to death with a heavy punch, is at best a blood bravery and cannot match it at all.
Mr. Lu Xun said: Ruthlessness may not be true Haojie, how pitiful is not a husband.
A true warrior, dare to face the dripping blood and the bleak life. James embodies these two sentences vividly, which also makes his emotional drama with his wife Mea particularly moving.
Renee Swellger is not the kind of drop dead gorgeous big beauty, her appearance is quite "homely". Mea, played by her, is also an ordinary Housewife in the United States, who runs housework all day, does not dare to watch her husband's boxing match, prefers to pray for him, and will be uncomfortable in the face of the magnesium lamp, unable to deal with the reporter's sharp questions.
But when difficulties arise at home, she can decisively decide to take the child to break the billboard for fuel to warm up; when her husband is provoked by her opponent, she can rush up and pour a glass of wine on his face; when her own man needs support the most, she can firmly appear in front of him and gently and forcefully tell him who James is.
All kinds of actions show that she is ordinary and extraordinary, all of which is exactly what this iron fist man needs, mea has given. As she said to James: "You can't win without me — to support a strong man, there must be such a flexible woman."
The traditional concepts of western countries represented by the United States actually have many similarities with Eastern countries, such as the concept of family. Before World War II, the vast majority of women in the United States were housewives. Later, because the United States entered the war, men rushed to the scene, and only women in China began to work, and the later trend of women's liberation was born. But countries with Christianity as the dominant ideology ultimately emphasize the rules within the male and female protagonists. Like this film, the reason why men can cope with the rough waves outside is only because he knows that as long as he turns around, there will always be a territory of his own. The territory didn't need much extravagance, it could just be two bedrooms and one room, three meals a day, a lamp that emitted a warm light, and a kiss that could iron his tired body and mind, and an embrace that was open to him at any time.