“The Main Event in America”, directed by A. W. McNight. From
Mystic Lotus and Backyard Fireworks, running 29 minutes, just posted by Coreynyc.
The film presents a 28 (guess) year old white male boxed
(Arthur Kuklov) living in the South Bronx with a single mom (black) abandoned
by her husband, and he says he wants to marry her. He tells his (non white)
boyfriend, who is passionately attached to him, that he has a “real life” and
that “I f—k people up for a living” Then he loses a fixed fight at the local ring
and his life comes apart. The place is
hardly “Fight Club” though.
This film (which needs more video detail) looks like it
wants a sequel and may be expanded into a feature (sort of like a Jorge Ameer
film).
My experience in life is being the “boyfriend” and clinging
to somebody who has a real life as I regard as a “good master” (remember “the rich
young ruler” and “why do you call me good”).
I remember riding by Amtrak through the South Bronx back from Boston in 1975 (I had seen a game at Fenway). It was a disturbing sight.
Picture: Harlem, 2014, mine.
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