Creeds

Rating: Null/10 (28 December 2015)

People want creeds to live by, stories on right living, how to strive and what for. Boxing movies are some of the simplest (romance films are another kind); they teach dogged effort, perseverance, pulling yourself back up again. But it is almost always at the expense of softer realizations about the intangible things that make life tough; uncertainty, ego, pride, desire, these are left untouched.
So it is here. Same old. The hero finds himself down and out, strives to pick himself up, does, goes up on the ring where he beats impossible odds. But what for? Has the boy got even an inkling about why he bashes himself to be worthy to a name, an image he clings to? We are roused up from our seats, if we are, but will go back home to lives that are never as clear cut as this. You don't have to listen to me, watch this and see what's left of it in you the next day. It's what happens when certainties are superficial, they don't grow roots in life we know.