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my great missunderstanding

posted 16 years ago by BelMinds
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As I watched the film I was somewhat bemused durring the beginning and I began to believe that the young boxer Was in fact the young version of the old boxer. This missunderstanidng made total sense to me throughout the film...the fury of his past made him a slave to his anger, regret and vengence which made him the broken man he was an old man.

I thought the great loss the old man suffered long ago would be the lose (though he didn't lose) the young boxer would suffer in the last fight.

The fight in the end I thought was a metaphor for the lesson the old boxer finally learned which made him relinquish his hate and vengence of the world; that there is never anybody else - there is just you, fighting a shadow forever, until you se one day that you were fighting yourself all along... and never anyone else. There is just you and yourself, nothing more.

[–] razorblade_kiss93 16 years ago

wow, thats quite an interesting theory, i think if i'd have watched the film thinking that, i would have enjoyed it even more than i already did.

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[–] stuffhotstuff 15 years ago

i never thought about it like that before ...good idea

[–] xtomatex 15 years ago

Ur 100% right BelMinds, I had the same though after watching it for the first time today! Well, I knew both were different people but I though the old boxer pass is probably similar to the young guys.

[–] Passive00 12 years ago

Yeah, at first I thought it was about two people, but then about 1/3 - 1/2 through the movie I started to think the movie might actually be taking place in two different times, like the delinquent parts were during his young pre-Olympic years and the older parts were post-Olympic years. During the latter 1/2 - 1/3 of the movie, I realized my second train of thought was wrong.

Watching with my second train of thought provided some interesting viewpoints, nonetheless