Warrior

I appreciate you for sharing your experience and thoughts. Its a beautiful thing to be able to look back over your life and see the progression and embracing lessons and mistakes we have made. Honestly I wouldn't change a thing in my life even the bad decisions because those are the things that make me truly engulf the beauty of life.. I appreciate you my friend

So man I just gotta talk about this. I am completely comfortable talking about it now and I share my testimony alot. WIth people who need to hear it, at groups, on podcasts. Anywhere that my story might give someone the inspiration and hope to get sober or get mentally healthy. TRIGGER WARNNING. THIS WILL TALK ABOUT EMOTIONAL/PHYSICAL ABUSE AND DRUG ABUSE. It also ties in with this movie because boxing was a HUGE escape for me. Before I drop the deep feels I just got to LOL at you calling dude Covid LOLOLOL! So Yea. I grew up in a rough city in a rough neighborhood in a house that was too small for all of us. my family extending back to my great great grand parents on both sides were alcoholics/addicts. That got passed down as a congenital trait to their kids. and their kids and then down to us. Out of my direct family Just talking about my parents and my siblings there is 8 of us. Out of those 8 only 2 never got addicted to drugs. Our childhood was rough our dad was a drunk and so was our mom. I won't get into all the details but we all (The boys) used to get beat real bad when dad was in a bad mood due to the booze. Just one example is I remember sleeping in my bed and my bed was the closest to the door so all my brothers are sleeping deeper in the room. My dad kicked the door open and just started fully beating on me in my bed for not taking the garbage out (I had to be 10 at the time) and he is just drunk as fuck reigning blows down on me for not taking the trash out. He was so drunk he didn't even know that it WASN'T EVEN GARBAGE NIGHT! So yeah a lot of my childhood was that along with gang activity. All my older brothers did it and they were the ones making sure the roof was over our head so who are you going to look up to as a kid? Honestly? I wanted to be just like them. So I ended up getting jumped in and felt like I finally belonged somewhere. My dad got sober but it was too little too late in my mind at the time. One of my brothers is already shot dead, my other brother was doing a 5 year bid in the state pen and my other brother was still out there getting money. I'm sixteen at the time and ran away from home. I got taken in by a fellow gang member whose uncle owned a boxing gym. I wanted nothing to do with my family. I had so much anger inside of me that turned into drug use. I threw away any mail or deleted any message that came from them besides my brothers. Anyway I ended up going to the boxing gym with my friend and just falling in love there with the sport. It turned out That I was just a natural. All the anger that I had inside of me was able to be released through boxing. I ended up even winning some junior tournaments and even came very close to winning the Silver gloves (It's for young armature boxers almost the same thing as golden gloves but thats for the older kids.) Through boxing I was actually able to get all that anger out of me to the point I could start talking to my parents again and I even moved back in with them for a while. Unfortunately the gang life and drugs took me back under ruined my relationship with them again (THIS WAS ALL MY FAULT THIS TIME) I dropped out of boxing and just became a huge mess until it got to the point where it was get clean or die. I went into a program and got clean and now looking back on that Six years later I am very proud of the man I have become. Out of the family almost all of us are sober now and some of the members may be estranged now because their lifestyle did not match up with the now sober life style of the household. I now have a beautiful wife and beautiful children and I do my best to make sure I can be the father I didn't have at their age. Yes me and my father are good friends now but when I needed a father figure I didn't have one and the streets took me. I AM LUCKY TO BE ALIVE TO EVEN TELL THIS STORY. Watching this movie really triggered me with a lot of different emotions seeing pieces of my life kind of play out in the movie. The anger, the boxing, the father trying but the brothers refusing. It just hit so close to home that I couldn't just watch this movie with your reaction and not tell my story. ALSO something a lot of people may have over looked was the book that the father was listening to... It was Moby Dick. A book about a Whaling captain obsessed with catching a particular whale and it control his life. Just like how alcohol controlled his, like how the survivors guilt and the anger of the one brother controlled his, and the overwhelming debt and anger towards his father controlled the other brother. It was such a beautiful background touch on the movie. I didn't expect to get this emotion and absolutely didn't expect you to either lol! Great reaction Dev keep them coming bro bro! You the man!

Jarl Greedo

Man the beginning of this movie is HITTING ME DEEP. I'll explain after the whole movie is over and I can give you my take on the movie dawg.

Jarl Greedo

Gotta mix in some fictional/scifi military with your reactions to, I'm still suggesting Battle: LA, Battleship, Independence Day

Renaldo

Great review! This gets me every time I watch it. The movie does a great job depicting the family dynamic of an abusive alcoholic parent that effects the development of the children in the family. The film will get you emotional by showing the level of feeling that the family still has for one another.

Yes!!!