The Iron Claw Review Bulkedup Zac Efron Amazing Sight In Tragic Wrestling Drama
The tragic scene of American wrestling, with all its machinism and wild showbiz pantomime, is the subject of Sean Durkin's strange and deeply sad drama based on the case of the Von Erich family, like the Von Trapp family, but with the death. . wish madness droid.
The Von Erichs were a professional wrestling dynasty from Texas in the 1980s; giant boys in wrestling boots and underpants and their master builder, the patriarch-ruler. The old man was bitter and fanatical about his sons, in a tried way, because of his failure to gain fame as a young pretender. As a result of his wildly dysfunctional upbringing and toxic masculinity, the von Erichs experienced a series of heartbreaking disasters. It is possible that the film will be set as a doppelganger with Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, although the proceedings here are largely based on fact.
It focuses on Zac Efron as Kevin Von Erich, the eldest son of a wrestling dynasty. Efron's appearance in this film is quite unusual. The elf boy we knew from High School Musical is gone. apparently it was his Bruce Banner phase. Now he's grown weird, and his whole face and head has gotten a more elongated jaw, like the love child of David Hasselhoff and Desperate Dan. (Efron explained it was the result of surgery after a freak accident.) Harris Dickinson is David and Stanley Simons is Mike, who really wants to be a musician. Maura Tierney plays Doris, their worried mother who doesn't want to talk to her sons about their emotional struggles, and Holt McCallany plays Fritz, their dark-skinned, short-haired father who, as a wrestler, invented a handle called an iron. . Claw, glove. into the enemy's skull with a menacing grip. He does this to boys to harden them.
The boy who wants to please his father the most is Kevin, who is never good enough. In reality, Kevin only finds happiness with his future wife, Pam (Lily James), who asks him questions about the elephant in the living room during their first date. Isn't this fake war? It is remarkable that it is the role of women to question this very male world so subtly and thoroughly. But Kevin says there's nothing wrong with that. Wrestlers are rewarded by the NWA, or National Wrestling Alliance, for their skill and technique, as well as their charisma in the ring. But it is clear that their actions in the ring are a matter of improvisation, within the confines of a pre-prepared narrative.
Durkin shows us that the unreality is offset by the genuine anguish of von Erich's experience; Brutal training, accidents, the burning need to please a father who will never truly love you, injuries and death. The family is Christian, and in the family home there is a faint, repetitive close-up of a cross that reminded me of Roland Barthes's essay "The World of Wrestling," where he recalls hearing a cheering fan while the wrestler lay down. suffering "He died, baby Jesus, there on the cross." The cause of the casualties in this film may be ambiguous, and Durkin is committed enough to the war and its fans not to question it; however, it has muscle and the sentimental post-death scene is inspired.
