Wednesday, April 08, 2020
"The Main Event in America": a boxer goes straight, to the chagrin of a boyfirend, and he even loses the fight
“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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