The Boxer (1997)
Country: EI/GB/US
Technical: col 114m
Director: Jim Sheridan
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox, Ken Stott
Synopsis:
A young Belfast boxer, imprisoned for IRA activities, resolves on his release to renounce political violence and opens a non-sectarian boxing club. This meets with resistance from his former IRA colleagues.
Review:
A revigorating angle on the 'violence versus non-violence' Irish debate as dramatic fodder, and an interestingly less melodramatic take than the same team's In the Name of the Father, this boasts another immersive role for Day-Lewis, ably supported by Watson. One cannot escape the inference that if only all Protestants and Catholics could punch the hell out of each other in the ring instead of on the streets, then Ireland's troubles would be over, an admittedly simplistic reduction.
Country: EI/GB/US
Technical: col 114m
Director: Jim Sheridan
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox, Ken Stott
Synopsis:
A young Belfast boxer, imprisoned for IRA activities, resolves on his release to renounce political violence and opens a non-sectarian boxing club. This meets with resistance from his former IRA colleagues.
Review:
A revigorating angle on the 'violence versus non-violence' Irish debate as dramatic fodder, and an interestingly less melodramatic take than the same team's In the Name of the Father, this boasts another immersive role for Day-Lewis, ably supported by Watson. One cannot escape the inference that if only all Protestants and Catholics could punch the hell out of each other in the ring instead of on the streets, then Ireland's troubles would be over, an admittedly simplistic reduction.
Country: EI/GB/US
Technical: col 114m
Director: Jim Sheridan
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox, Ken Stott
Synopsis:
A young Belfast boxer, imprisoned for IRA activities, resolves on his release to renounce political violence and opens a non-sectarian boxing club. This meets with resistance from his former IRA colleagues.
Review:
A revigorating angle on the 'violence versus non-violence' Irish debate as dramatic fodder, and an interestingly less melodramatic take than the same team's In the Name of the Father, this boasts another immersive role for Day-Lewis, ably supported by Watson. One cannot escape the inference that if only all Protestants and Catholics could punch the hell out of each other in the ring instead of on the streets, then Ireland's troubles would be over, an admittedly simplistic reduction.