Oscars like boxing movies - Raging bull, Million dollar baby, Cinderella man. But this time it is slightly different. "The fighter' makes it for different reasons. It is more of family drama, a family sorting out their issues... kind of movies that are coming to fore - "kids are alright" or 'american beauty' for instance. For the love of the boxing, technicality is limited to "head-body-head". That somehow seems enough too.
The surprisingly best performance is by Christian Bale. In the first shot of the movie you see him in a completely differnt look, twiching on his feet all the time, an air of spinless mercurial unpredictability. The whole style of talking and body language of a dude on crack in his 40s but still living in his past moment of glory when he knocked down 'sugar ray'. He showed his metamorphosis in machinist earlier, this is even better. This is definitely a role with more shades and dimensions than his all previous. Scene around the 'oh, they gave you new teeth!' he nails it.
Mark Whalburg has arrived. Gives a solid performance too. But movie is not about him. amy adams and christian bale takes the honors.
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