The Boxer (Collector's Edition)
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Features
• Anamorphic
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• DVD-Video
• Special Edition
• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 31 December, 1997
DVD Release : 08 July, 1998 |
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The Boxer (Collector's Edition) description
Yet another potent (although critically underrated) drama from Jim Sheridan and Daniel Day-Lewis, the Irish director and British star (respectively) of My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father. The story focuses on Danny Flynn (Day-Lewis), a promising boxer who had been imprisoned at age 18 for associating with IRA terrorists. After ser ... review details
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A classic film that is under-rated yet excellent
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This film about the conflict in Northern Ireland between the British and the Irish is extremely well done with a balance between the lives of the characters and the larger structural historic forces that impact their relationships.
Daniel Day Lewis plays the character of Danny Flynn, a 32 year old man who has just spent 14 years in prison for IRA activities. When Danny was 18, and an outstanding promising young boxer, he engaged in IRA activities and took a longer sentence so as to protect his colleagues. He returns from prison, not defeated and soul-dead, but philosophically centered. He finds his old boxing coach, who has become a homeless alcoholic, and together they try to establish a sectarian boxing school that allows both Catholic and Protestant boys the opportunity to learn how to box.
He leaves prison at a time when critical strategic negotiations are occurring between the IRA and the Belfast Police. Prior to his imprisonment Danny was in love with young Maggie Hamill. After his incarceration she married another IRA man, whom she never really loved. This man is currently imprisoned. There is an IRA social norm that no one courts or has affairs with women whose husbands are imprisoned for the IRA cause, thus strengthening the social norms around terrorist activities. A man who thought his wife might leave him for another man while he was imprisoned would be less likely to commit acts of violence against the British. Thus the IRA maintains a strong social network to ensure that fighters remain loyal. Entire housing projects have been modified so that hidden passages between apartments have been created to allow IRA member to enter one apartment and exit another. The leader, Joe Hamill, played by Brian Cox, is under constant surveillance and therefore must live and operate in this maze.
The film's strength is that it perfectly displays the point in an insurrection whereby the insurrection splits between those that are ready to negotiate and end conflict and those that wish to continue the conflict. Joe Hamill has finally reached a point in the negotiation whereby some progress can be made toward peace. The release of Danny Flynn, who has become a neutral partisan after his long incarceration, who at first be an advantage for Joe Hamill. However, the mounting and increased attraction between Danny, and the daughter of Joe, played very well by Emily Watson, violates the IRA norm against courtship of IRA women with imprisoned husbands. This gives the IRA camp that wishes to increase and continue the conflict the very cards they need to play to undermine Joe Hamill.
The film has the viewer moving up and down on emotional roller coasters as you become invested in the relationship between Danny and Emily, in Danny's school for young boxers, in Joe's delicate negotiation process, and in the forces that wish to undermine it all because they are so filled with hatred that they emotionally can never give up the desire for revenge. The ending is tense, surprising, and plausible and I don't want to spoil it for future viewers.
In the end the screen writers, film makers and actors have give us an incredible gift. The tragedy that surrounds the situation in Northern Ireland is made more real through the struggles of the characters. The complexities of the political situations are made more real through the plot and subplots that move the film forward. You will finish the film with mixed emotions with hope that one day Ireland will be at peace and yet with real knowledge that peace is only obtainable through the work of human intervention, a process fraught with failability.
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