The fighter is one of those movies that receive a continuous overvaluation, first from the critics and then from the awards. It is not an easy film to make, and its director, David O. Russell (Three Kings responsible ), you know. It is not easy especially since the previous Boxing cinema masterpieces have left with which this film will inevitably be compared. And in this comparison, The fighter loses. Not because they have virtues, which undoubtedly does, but because it fails to rise on merit from among the titles of this style. Yes highlighted by a simply outstanding cast, led by Mark Wahlberg and correct a prodigious Christian Bale, who is worth listening original version to stop at all the little details that make verbal and gestural an unforgettable role. A cast that rises above the predictability of the script and the holes left, missed opportunities for the brilliance of the actors would have been even higher. With a brief review of the boxing film, one realizes that the challenge of creating a new movie is immense. Harder They Fall , Fat City , Rocky, Raging Bull , The boxer , Million Dollar Baby , the unjustly forgotten Cinderella Man ... There are many iconic titles that has given this little subgenre. What's new The fighter to earn a spot in memory? Not much, really. The big news stylistic features is to integrate the television format on the screen, first through a documentary that a group of filmmakers is making the boxer Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) and his brother and trainer Dicky (Christian Bale), and then with the television footage of the fighting there in the film. But since we're not at a boxing film, but of a family drama set in that world lightly, losing weight stylistic novelty in the story almost without our noticing.
What matters to The fighter is family history. The film begins with two brothers, one a boxer and the other was trained. His mother (Melissa Leo) acts as his manager, while her father and her five other sisters are mere entertainers. Are not rich, have no style, and can barely survive at the expense of the small revenues that Micky out of their fighting, while Dicky live a bad life that threatens the career of his brother. In this situation, Micky finds a wife, a waitress (Amy Adams) who think it is time for the boxer to make their own decisions and for their own future, professionally away from his family. That clash of female personalities is just sketched in the film. O'Russell, according to the script Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson, has stopped in both environments (thanks to a superb and very appropriate musical selection) that is slipping further development of this issue.
It is a pity, because some actors in a state of grace, cried out something else. It does have everything you need a Christian Bale makes the best role of his career, to the point that one must ask a thousand times if we are facing the same performer who gives life to Batman for Christopher Nolan. Skills give much play chameleon and many options. He would be in the same corner as a sweeping Melissa Leo in this personal confrontation that drives the film, it does move, but does not finish into his soul. In the other corner is Amy Adams, an actress maverick, surprisingly versatile, powerful and always amazing that embodies those wanting more to stop the script. Borda what he does, but there is much more behind his performance that does not reach the footage The fighter . Including three create a perfect setting for Walhberg get carried away with success as the timid fighter, caught between family and love. I love them all, but they all hate.
There are two great scenes of confrontation between Leo and Adams, both formidable and stressful, both outline a path that does not stop making film. As a conflict so suggestive, it hurts the script to give you a decision as hasty and somewhat implausible. Perhaps we find the reason for the softness in the end credits, accompanied by pictures of the brothers Ward real, because this is a movie based on the story of a real boxer. It is assumed that if there are is because they're happy with the script and the project, which already suggests that everything is something sweetened, at least in the final stretch of the film. And despite having this reference in reality, one of the great successes of the film is that it keeps the excitement and tension of knowing what will happen in the final match inevitable climax of the whole boxing movie The Fighter even asked to screams emotional strength to be in other scenes.
The fighter is a good movie, but probably not as good as advertising, marketing, criticism and the awards we have tried to believe. Stresses and finds a place in the hearts of moviegoers for his wonderful acting job, but beyond that there is not new to hold on to. Perhaps everything is more clear if explained to Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull director ) rejected direct but Wahlberg (who work Departed) is proposed it, or if you know that Darren Aronofsky (director of The Wrestler on wrestling rather than boxing, but similar in tone and theme, it seemed even more overvalued) opted for black swan it instead of tape. Perhaps they did see how hard it was to fight against the references, for many qualities that one can gather on the screen. The fighter meets a few, but otherwise stays on the road.
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