What are you doing opening your mouth in my kitchen? You owe me two hundred dollars.

Every dream does deserve a fighting chance! And sometimes it is ok to give your family the giant, yet heartfelt middle finger to pursue said dreams! Alright, it's not that he was giving his family the middle finger, but he did have to go against their wishes to really get what he wanted. Please welcome 2010's hard-knock knockout The Fighter (yeah, dumb, I know).

I just realized I had a foreign poster.

     But this movie isn't dumb. It's far from it. The Fighter is a really beautiful piece about two brothers, both fighters, passing the title of glory from one to the next. It's really about family though, and if you have one, this movie is for you. No matter where you are from, there will be something that will hit home. 
     Sometimes, though, when things are too close to home, things become uncanny for me. Do you guys get that way? Do you feel uncomfortable when you see your life in art? Because I do. I really do. I honestly get too emotional about those movies, and that's why I tend to like things that are so far from my real life. Then, well, then it's actually fiction. With The Fighter, perhaps it was the large family lovingly smothering one child, claiming they know what's right. Or maybe it was Christian Bale. One of my brothers (I have four of them) is just like Dickey. In mannerisms, in posture, in looks (well, sort of), and I guess in spirit. I mean, just because someone, how do I say this, mentally exists where you don't, doesn't mean you aren't in their heart. Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg really nail their brotherly love. I don't know. It's really hard to talk about this movie. But it was really amazing. It was really, really amazing.