Watching Nicola Adams enter the
history books yesterday as the first woman to win Gold for Boxing, I was
inspired to watch a Boxing related film, ‘Real Steal’, on Sky movies.
(image courtesy of BBC Sport)
The film was surprisingly good! Superficially,
it is about a man who scrapes a living taking robots to fight at the Boxing matches
of the future; in reality it is about a man learning to mend his relationship
with his estranged 11 year old son.
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The film has a real ‘feel good’ factor
without being overly sentimental;
The plot is somewhere between
Stallone’s ‘Over the Top’ and ‘The Karate Kid’, again symbolising the never
ending struggle of the underdog against the odds. The boy helps his Father to
remember that the relationship of Father and Son is one of interdependence,
with each fulfilling the needs of the other.
Ultimately, aside from the occasional
swear word, I would recommend this film; its uplifting central message is
carried along with enough action to keep even the ‘coolest’ of teenage kids
happy.
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