SouthPaw or ....

I can’t even start to translate the gauntlet of my emotions into words after watching this movie. Boxing movies tend to always do that. How many of you remember “The Champ”? One of the first movies that I can remember that made me cry. Not that I go around crying, cos I’m a thug nigga and niggas don’t cry. OK, ok, ok, I cry sometimes. The worse part of it all was that I watched the movie in a room full of girls and they were all crying but I had to act tough.  I eventually gave in.

Antoine Fuqua (Training day) directs this and does a great job. The main role was to be Eminem ( 8 mile) but he dropped out at the last minute and the role went to Jake Gyllenhaal.

As I said earlier, I cannot put my feelings -after seeing this movie- into words and so I would leave you to watch it and draw your own conclusions but in the interim, this is a brief on what the movie is all about.

Southpaw features Jake Gyllenhaal as Billy "The Great" Hope, the reigning Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World. He's on top of the world, career-wise and family-wise, until an unfortunate incident causes the death of his wife (played by Rachel McAdams). Consumed by grief and reckless behavior, he temporarily loses custody of his child. Now he must return to the ring to win back his honor and his remaining family.

  

Update: I just read this. See excerpts

The Champ has also been called "the saddest movie in the world", and the final scene has been used in numerous psychology experiments to elicit a strong emotional response. According to Smithsonian magazine two psychologists, Robert Levenson and James Gross, conducted a study of more than 250 movie clips, and subjected them to 500 subjects in 1988, and concluded the last three minutes of the movie, where "T.J." sees his father win in his comeback fight only to witness his death in the dressing room afterwards, elicited the saddest response from a majority of the subjects. In the scene the grief-stricken "T.J." is inconsolable tugging his father's body while crying out "Champ, wake up. Please wake up, Champ."

So I am not so soft after all. lol.