It is the story of a family torn apart by a father's alcoholism.
The violence and pain separates and estranges the family as the brothers move through life separately - strangers.
They are brought together in an epic "winner-takes-all" MMA battle.
The dad (Nick Nolte) has 1,000 days sober as the movie opens.
He has so much wreckage from his past and his sons - ion their different ways - can't forgive him.
As you can imagine, I had a ton of thoughts and feelings during the movie.
I won't tell the story in case you haven't seen it and plan to, but let's say that I bawled like a school girl - especially during the last 10 minutes or so.
In one scene, I was SOOO angry with the dad. Doesn't his son (now an adult) EVER get to be angry and have feelings? Can't his dad ever be a grown up and let someone else not be ok?
Aaaaaaaarrrrggghh!
So much pain and hurt and heartbreak and, as I said, wreckage.
So sad. So unnecessary.
I couldn't help but reflect on my own life and the choices I have made and the effects on my kids.
Cathartic?
Probably not.
And now I am emotionally drained.
Heading to bed.
Keep on keeping on...
Wow! I've not heard of this film, but I must watch it.
ReplyDeleteI know it's hard not to regret our choices sometimes, but you do what you what you feel is right at the time. I always find comfort in the sentence in the Acceptance passage from the Big Book, "Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God's world by mistake."
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It is sometimes hard to realize that all of us can clear away that wreckage in recovery. But it does happen.
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