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     Ferociouskitty Veteran Poster Username: Ferociouskitty Post Number: 725 Registered: 02-2008 Rating: N/A |
The documentary Tyson was released Friday. Interestingly, Mike Tyson's is the only narrative voice in the film. Here's some of the press on it, including pieces by Ice-T and Stanley Crouch: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-04-27/my-friend-iron-mike/ http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-03-26/mike-tyson-lets-his-gu ard-down/full/ "In one cut of the film, while discussing Desiree Washington (the beauty contestant whom he was convicted of raping), the fighter implies that there's no way he raped Washington. His reasoning: He’s raped before and knows the difference. You have to wonder: accidental slip, or calculated confession?" http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-04-24/bloody-brilliant/ "When the boxer says that everything that happened to him is his fault and that he can only blame himself, we are in not only a new land for a depiction of a black athlete but one very fresh for a celebrity today, where apology and promises of forthcoming therapy seem the norm." "His obsession with sexually dominating powerful members of the opposite sex or women better educated than himself provides us with inside maps to the psychological roads traveled by certain men from the bottom as they stumble upon what they have been told is the best of everything. Delusions beset them as they enter the boudoirs of females shallowly prized for their runway looks or understandably honored for the skill, imagination, and endurance that took them up career mountains craggy with difficulties. This is a ritual in which such a man delivers his savagery so effectively that he falls victim to a cluelessly sad assumption: Guaranteeing female ecstasy will insure the station of a noble. "Even pimps know better than that. Part of Tyson's continuing trouble is that he does not have enough confidence in his poetic sensibility. More inarguably high-quality women are out here than the fighter seems capable of imagining. A quantity far from small would find that soulfully delicate sense of life equal in its force and magnetism to the bare facts of Tyson's sexuality. That lack of awareness is perhaps the worst thing that happened to Tyson: His troubles resulted in the champion losing faith in his imagination, his compassion, and his ability to deeply empathize. Those were the qualities that both liberated him from his grounding in criminality and individuated the man in sparkling ways that were a charming victory over the numbing power of the streets." | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 13694 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Very interesting. |
