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Southpaw: A Film on Recovery from Life Damaging Circumstances

After watching Rocky I, II, III, IV, V, Rocky Balboa, Creed and the Fighter, Southpaw is another motivational movie which helps you to work out and make you feel that howsoever bad the circumstance may be, there always is a HOPE to come back. Yes, HOPE, the movie Southpaw is about the life of a BILLY HOPE who is professional boxer who is at the peak of his career and has been undefeated for the past 44 matches. He is hot headed and finds difficult to control his anger. His life is woven around his wife and daughter. He is emotionally dependent on his wife and he says that he  wouldn't  be where he is without his wife.   But in an unexpected turn to his life, Hope loses his wife who is shot  accidentally . Utterly depressed by the loss, Hope loses control over his self, and loses his daughter to the custody of child services as the court feels that her daughter is not safe in the current situation of his father. She is taken away. His property ...

RUSH: A 2013 Biographical Sports Drama Film

“Everybody has got that one thing which makes them happy and for me it’s terrifying terrifying speed” (movie source: Turbo) I was just browsing through the Highest Rated IMDb "Top 250" Titles. At#167, I saw Chris Hemsworth in a poster (Thor in the American superhero movie Thor). The rating of the movie is 8.2 and the movie is RUSH, so I decided to give it a definite watch. The movie was released in 2013. The movie is based on the real life rivalry between Formula 1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1976 Formula One motor-racing season (honestly, I came to know about Jame and Niki only after watching this movie) Both James and Niki are highly Passionate and Skilled drivers and both of them have something in them which makes them a champion of their own kind. James is Formula three racer but he is a speedy driver and races at high speed to reach Formula one. Niki’s family believes that the wealthy Lauda family is to be associated with poli...