It is hard to imagine how MMA took on the channels of the board for viewing every bar and the hostel in North America. But it was not so many years ago, it was on metaphorical ropes: Target for extermination by US Senator John McCain and attacked as barbaric even at that time as organizations such as UFC and Pride, competed for Constant airtimeField
Mark Kerr, six -feet three inches, more than 250 pounds, “breaking the car”, whose favorite pastime was his indomitable will on men, was stupid enough to join him in an octagon.
This does not mean that Kerr is a cruel person. Instead, the dichotomy between his insatiable blood for physical domination on the rug and his acquaintance with a soft cheer. Smashing MachineThe field is actually the only moment when Dwayne “The Rock” is a film under the leadership of Johnson I have to do it.
Of course, there is a real story here; Documentation is strangely selected (more about this later) part of the fighter career up and down, Smashing Machine This is an exposure approved by the subject about how Kerr (Johnson) lost all this (theoretically) changed his gaze, and then fought to return all this.
Starting this journey, we join Kerra at a high level: by valing in the struggle with a grin of fear, before lying with the brilliant belts of the championship-holding his wife Dawn (Emily Blunt) in their hands and gave convincing interviews to Japanese journalists outside the Japanese battles of pride.
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One journalist must push him, asking him to think about how he will hypothetically handle the loss of the match, after he cannot actually answer the question. But this is impossible for Kerr: he cannot understand the concept of loss. Kerr explains that this does not fit into his mind, grinning, like a lobotomized King Cong. The next question?
Of course, this is a setting for falling. Kerra’s fans will not be surprised to see this: delicate sliding in general catatonia, since dependence on painkillers crawls from the sides. Then these are missed matches, abbreviated opportunities, hospitalization and a knockdown, a fight with dawn.
Friendly fighter
With the exception of no real battles, of course. Kerr's unlocked disgust to a real confrontation is constantly contrasting his descriptions of literally bending fighters with his will, physically forcing people to obey him, comparing it with a high level of drugs.
These comparisons are shown everywhere, as Kerr calmly explains the source of his battered face with a disapproving elderly woman in the doctor’s office. How he is wise wheels grocery carts through lively parking lots. Or, as he politely complains of the judges of dangerous, prohibited movements against him just a few hours after these movements were prohibited to make modern games of the gladiators more acceptable for a wide audience and doubting politicians.
This is this aspect Smashing Machine This offers the most potential narrative food: like a sport that was originally worried with only two rules (No Kusa) is transformed into a semi -dependent adjustable industry in the industry energy capacity today.
If this is what you would like to extract, then this period in history is the most interesting to choose. But if the study of Kerra is the goal, then the period of time chosen for this is soft, strange.
There was a whole rag to wealth, which was offered by a jump in success if they looked at the beginning of his career. Or later, the Sisyphus tragedy of the once continuous power of nature on the loss strip, forced to fight what his life means when his only metric for meaning (forcing others to failure) is turned on him.
Instead, we are somewhere in the middle of both periods. This would not be the worst option if Safdi at least tried to die on the facade of Kerra. But how Any authorized biographyThe main goal Breaking a car Not in order to expose unpleasant truths: it is slightly withstand humanizing mistakes before leioting his star when he overcomes them.
Wining matches
How Safdie does it is possible Smashing MachineThe biggest mistake. Instead of proposing a close -knit story, it stumbles through a series of life events one after another: a difficult struggle, complex dependence, difficult recovery, difficult relations.
Except that they are not built into another and are not invested in a statement about Kerre or even about sports in its center. Unlike almost any other combat history, we do not see Kerra mainly change his system of beliefs; Only the circumstances change around him, as an incoherent collage of home videos, chosen randomly to create the impression of an indirative study of character.
Indeed, they simply make up a weak portrait of a terrible marriage and the fight against an athlete, without something, frank or even unique, to pay attention to attention. Like Foxcatcher meets The history of marriageexcept without an arrow or a showboard.
Of course, there is the only advantage: Johnson’s nuanced turn in the role of Kerr, demonstrating his first risky, useful acting since it has been criminally underestimated Pain and winThe field but it was wasted on the script that continues to desperately use his only trick from the hooling hippo of the person who performs housework and visit dining parties, as if Georges Saint -Pierre did not beat people out of the borders of drug buyers, in some way shocked to guarantee the film.
Enough, bruised vehicle
But there is something infinitely useful in long-suffering wakefulness, in particular, when it comes to the awards of the Academy. The role was received by acting nominations for Denzel Washington in A HurricaneWill Smith in AliMickey Rourke in Fighterand wins Robert de Niro in Frantic bull and Wallace Biri up to ChampionField
Even then, the story of an aging prize, destroyed by physical and abuse of psychoactive substances, was not so new. In the modern review The New York Times called Champion a as A small story, fully supported by her speeches, “one of those trusted and trusted matters that were very good in the days of old silent paintings, but now something is more new and thin.”
Champion He was released in November 1931.
