Seriously, this movie kinda messed me up. It's been a few days and I still keep getting flashes of it. It's one of those tragedies where if things had been just the tiniest bit different, he may have lived a long happy life. He almost chose to live, but the rejection from his love interest and his daughter pushed him back into the ring. One could argue that's where he was happiest, but he showed such longing for a normal life and it spit in his face. He was a fuck up everywhere but that ring, and was left behind by time for it. The scene with the kid playing Nintendo with him while trying to explain modern games, before hurriedly leaving his trailer messed with me in a way I haven't felt before. Now that I'm older, I've started to see where the world has outpaced my understanding, and I can only imagine how much more intense that gets from here. This man trapped in time, trapped by his choices, and trapped by the obligation to his former fame. His loneliness and lifestyle really hit me hard. I want to be happy that he died doing what he loved but his heartbreaking look into the audience in his final moments just hit me way too hard. Ugh. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/3pgQR9z
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