Monday, 10 October 2011

REAL STEEL(2011)

As aforementioned earlier, Hugh Jackman can sing, act, fight and so on...
Now he boxes too
No, I take that back. He should been boxing. And I thought asking him to fight typical baddies was bad enough, this lets Jackman does his thing. And he knocks'em out.


I always fancied the idea of learning how to fight. Probably because of my watching of Powerpuff Girls and Lora Croft(I never play), I reckon would be kind of cool to learn how to fight, like some hidden ability, undiscovered by society's expectations. Teehee, don't mind me. Taking people down using words is hard enough, not to mention fists. 


Real steel is a story for the underdog. There is no glamorous 0 lose count, and things do go wrong in the show. It's real life on screen, not reel life, where the actors still look perfectly dashing after running about in a mud pit. They face disappointment, difficulty, fear, and many other regular folk like us face. To some degree it's a science fiction show. I wouldn't say how much, but it is set in the near future where boxers are replaced by machines, and less and less people take up the art of boxing. We see Charlie (Jackman) cringe, curse, take a poor attitude, make wrong choices, and for the first few robots in the show, watch him burn his money. 


What steals the show is Max, his son. Max starts off as an annoyance. He's stubborn, he has a mind of his own, and disregards what other people say. But he ends up working together for Charlie, and soon we find ourselves cheering the pair on, as though we're fighting our own respective Zeus, be it financial difficulties, family problems, coping with illnesses, trouble in academics, the final fight of Zeus VS Atom seems like a metaphor of the struggles we go through. In the end, Atom overcomes its difficulties and emerges victorious against Zeus, where the fight is considered as a David VS Goliath battle, where it is not a evenly squared match, and yet the disadvantaged still emerges victorious. 


I enjoyed the show very much, although the fight sequences do not have the slow motion action, but the use of different camera angles paint a clear picture of the situation. The directors try their best to reduce the use of computer graphic imaging, painting a picture both real and believable. Don't worry, there aren't many gory scenes, you can count them off your fingers, 1. I ain't telling you when. 

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