It's late. I'm tired. I'll keep this brief.
I watched China Heavyweight last night. It's a fly-on-the-wall documentary about a boxing school in rural China. It's a Chinese production. It's pretty good.
The film follows a couple pupils in the boxing academy, and focuses on one of the trainers. He's a dude who should have been the village hero, but next quite made it far enough. Never got the belt. Well, after taking a break to train the kids he decides he wants one last shot at glory.
There's no narration. No glitz or glamor. It's just true, pure documentary film-making. I wouldn't go out of your way to watch it. But it's not a waste of time either. You'll learn something about rural China at the very least. It's interesting.
It's not gonna make any "best of" lists...
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