A rite of passage

Rating: 10/10 (1 November 2018)

I cannot tell you how much this movie means to me. Well I can, but I cannot put it into words. Again, I can but I doubt it'll truly convey what this movie means to me...
Imagine, a ten year old kid introduced to this movie. A kid who's dad worked for Warner Bros SoHo who brought home movies every night. But this particularly movie stuck with me. This movie struck a chord. Resonated. Why? I don't know. Maybe because it was about a no-hoper who made good; a working class bum who became an overnight sensation; Maybe it was the music that stirred my soul. I don't know. All I can tell you is this movie changed my life. Inspired me. Maybe screwed me up a little. Either way, this movie had an impact. Very few movies do that. And if you can do that to a little kid that he feels the need to write about it 34 years later then that's got to mean something, no?
I love this film. That fight is the best scene I have seen. It's do loaded. It means so much.