So yesterday I did with some anxiety went to see Rocky Balboa. And the movies brought in many varied emotions.
Rocky has like many of us born in that era envokes a nostalgia. Especially growing in India of 80's, the movie when I first saw, and with teenage curiosity and fascination menat the movie weaved the silver screen super hero wit elan. And when we saw the movie I could still see the magic of the dream in the middle aged women who saw the whle movie on he edge of her seat. And no doubt this movie as lot of others have also said it's the among the best sequel the epic Rocky.
But one of the enduring theme that this movie certianly catures is the cajoling the underdog feeling and then streaching oneself to achieve an almost impossible dream. The Rocky and its sequel gives a human perspective to this enduring theme. Everytime an ordinary mortal who is certainly is not an intelegencia ( "his comment about steps father's lineage being european as he is from Caribean"), and who comes in limelight not because he wants fame but because he has to prove to himself("as said to his son after the insecure son devours his insecurity of being brought up under the shadows of Rocky").
And all these appeals to the good portions of life. Living for something bigger. And as good and esecially poular movies are, one identifies with the movie and lives the Balboa vicariously. To some degree enamouring the the american spirit of "man for himself".
And so at the end even though one knows that movie certianly will be any masterpiece like a Kubrik Rocky will forever make a person feel happy when he comes out of
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