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Fighting with My Family review

Posted : 4 months ago on 7 January 2024 10:00

La carrera de Saraya como luchadora profesional ha sido muy convulsionada. Incidentes que la pusieron en el ojo del huracán, malas decisiones en su vida personal y una carrera que en un momento se vio truncada por una lesión. A alguien ajeno al mundo del wrestling después de ver este film se le complicaría asimilar los sucesos reales posteriores a la historia contada, pues la película se centra en un momento más íntimo de su vida, pero que encaja mejor para un guión de este género.

Cabe resaltar el rol de los personajes secundarios, a pesar de que la protagonista siga el típico desarrollo de autosuperación, la relación con su familia, especialmente su hermano Zak, es lo que sostiene el peso de la película. El sueño de ambos hermanos es llegar a la grandeza de WWE, pero los motivos de cada uno son distintos. Para Zak es un sueño de la niñez, pero para Saraya es un escape. Al ser elegida para ir a Florida, ambos pierden esa motivación.

No quedé muy satisfecho con la representación dada del territorio de desarrollo, hasta cierto punto parecía un concurso al estilo de un reality que recuerda, irónicamente, a la idea original de NXT y no quedan claras las razones por las cuales alguien es elegido. Agradezco en algo la honestidad al aseverar de que la empresa reclute talento de campos no relaciones con el wrestling y el intento de reconocer el trabajo duro de estas personalidades, pero se quedaron cortos en ese aspecto.

En definitiva, la película trabaja bien con sus personajes, hace una buena representación de la relación de Saraya con su hermano, peca un poco en lo cursi del final, pero en general es una película disfrutable.


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An average movie

Posted : 3 years, 8 months ago on 24 August 2020 08:31

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since there was a decent cast involved, I thought I might as well check it out. I have to admit that I have never been a fan of Wrestling and, even though this movie was a decent attempt to legitimize this ‘sport’, to be honest, I wasn’t still not really convinced. Another thing that bothered me was that, even though Dwayne Johnson was displayed prominently on all the promotional material, he actually had only 2 small scenes (the 1st one was pretty cool though). Anyway, the movie itself was pretty much a generic sports feature faithfully following the rules of the genre. The end, even if it was fairly entertaining, didn’t make much sense to me though. Indeed, since all the fights in Wrestling are fixed from the beginning, if the fighters have a script to follow, how can you actually win a fight?!? Saraya/Paige should have known even before the fight started that she was going to win or maybe I completely misunderstood this ‘sport’ but, to be honest, I don’t think I really care. There is one thing that really worked though with this movie and it was Florence Pugh. Indeed, so far, I have seen her only in this movie and ‘Midsommar’ but she seriously impressed me and I can understand why she is considered as one of the most promising upcoming actresses working today. In this movie, she completely disappeared in her character, she was really convincing and seriously charismatic. In fact, it was rather annoying that it took the character the whole duration to figure how charismatic she was but I blamed more the script then Pugh’s strong performance. Anyway, to conclude, even if I still think that Wrestling is terribly tedious, I have to admit that this movie was still fairly entertaining and it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre. 



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