An intimate and mature Rocky, which is a superb lesson of Love, Humility, Respect and Life

Rating: 10/10 (11 March 2019)

Sly once again puts all his Heart and Soul into an intimate and mature Rocky, which is a superb lesson of Love, Humility, Respect and Life. After the opening credits, we find Rocky in the shower following his fight against the last titan he had to face. He cannot stop his hands from shaking, because after taking so many hits in his life he suffers from a brain injury. Back from the medical office, Rocky and Adrian still learn that following the general power of attorney that Paulie unknowingly had Rocky sign for the benefit of their accountant, the latter abused them by stealing their finances and gambling them on the stock market. Having lost everything, materially, the Balboa-Pennino family returns to Rosehill Street in the modest neighborhoods of Philadelphia. Where the family was born, grew up, and has always been at home, without the gold, without the chrome, in the dark streets they have learned to love thanks to the bright hearts of those who live there and illuminate the darkness with their modesty and their affection.
From the corrupt accountant to the greedy businessman who wants to buy everything and everyone with complete disregard for the True Values: The Values of Abnegation, Courage, Effort, but above all The Values of the Heart and Spirit, this fifth episode is a harsh criticism of savage capitalism and its predators who corrupt and destroy everything they touch. There comes a time when castles fall, but not the Compassion, and Rocky had to learn to "lose" to be able to win again, with his Heart, in order to defeat those who wanted to destroy him and his Family. Now he can lose and choose, understand what he had fled, and fully grasp the measure of the man who has come full circle by going to hell and back.