This man's whole life is just a story of manipulation, bad circumstance, racist oppression and unwarranted displeasure.
Supposedly as a child he was whipped and beaten, forced to pull a plow around like he was some sort of an ox.
It's the part of the documentary I have the most questions about as I'd like to know the validity of any of his childhood. But we're never going to get answers to that stuff.
Supposedly as a child he was whipped and beaten, forced to pull a plow around like he was some sort of an ox.
It's the part of the documentary I have the most questions about as I'd like to know the validity of any of his childhood. But we're never going to get answers to that stuff.
It's just a sad story of a man who climbs his way to the top of a respected profession only to be disrespected and ultimately cast out with little to no Fanfare.
There's this whole 'who done it' plot to the documentary which feels a little cheap. But is most likely the only real reason anybody's even here to begin with.
This guy died in mysterious circumstances and everybody has a different opinion as to what happened.
He was either killed by mobsters and set up to look like a heroin overdose or possibly had a heroin overdose and then covered up to look like a murder for his self-image.
Either way it's pretty depressing.
He was a heavy hitter who just constantly had to go up against an ever depressive world.
Either he had to deal with the eventual Triumph of Muhammad Ali or worst; Richard Nixon Drug War which was partially designed to eliminate a large part of the black voting populace.
Not that it would be much of a difference to this man as he was a convicted convict and convicts aren't allowed to vote in the US.
What a horrible system by the bye.
If you're convicted of any crime in any substantial way you literally become a second-class citizen. Not a theoretical second-class citizen where your life isn't as important as the rich people, but a literal second class citizen who stripped of certain rights and given less opportunity to improve themselves. And people wonder why so much of the u.s. is a crime problem.
Anyways the documentary overall is okay.
It's entertaining enough to watch and if you don't know anything about the man it's got some insight. I don't think anybody who seriously follows boxing or keeps up with the biography of this man is going to be that impressed though.
It's all pretty surface-level material and the actual scenarios acted out in the movie are basic at best. There's a couple what if scenarios where they show different outcomes of a certain events that are interesting and those are fun to watch. But for the most part it just feels a little lackluster.
A little out of date like this could have come out in 2005 and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Except Mike Tyson would have been a bit younger though probably no more coherent. I wonder how much they had to pay him to be in this interview?
Almost everyone that was interviewed for this documentary had this really sleazy undertone do them.
It makes me wonder how much of that is purposefully altered by the people making the documentary and how much of that is genuine.
The main rule when it comes to any documentary or anything you see on TV that claims to be 'reality' is that it can all be easily edited to make someone seem better or worse than they actually are.
Cut someone's dialogue at the right Point. Artificially put in an awkward silence at the right moment and you can change a person's personality and overall story.
Beware the manipulation.
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