The Fire Inside

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The Fire Inside

“Your thoughts about women’s boxing? ” says one of them. Jason Crutchfield (Brian Tyree Henry), a coach at a Flint, Michigan, boys\’ club in 2012. It is now 2012, and five years earlier he had let one girl join his club (of course this was against regulations): a tough 11-year-old named Claressa Shields who would later be played by Jazmin Headley and then Ryan Destiny as a teenager.

In ‘The Fire Inside’, Claressa is introduced as a girl whose strong will determines she will do all that she can to claim her right to step into the ring. It is not as if she has been able to argue into it-Casserra, as we now know, is not all that vocal. It is her fists that do the talking on her behalf. And among the reasons we learn about how she is so competent in using them is because she at least, flatly states, enjoys striking people. Her being a strong-arm offensively aggressive person – no apologies for it. But she has also come from a broken place. Her father is in prison and her mother is resource-drained, egocentric and a party animal who, at best, can drag the family away from poverty only occassionally. Along with the backdrop of a depressed, hopeless community. And what everyone is telling Claressa is that the only place to punch is to the side.

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Sorry, but Jason as a coach is trying to explain what an alien concept girls’ boxing is, at this moment in time, to most of the people everywhere in the world. We, moviegoers, may not, of course, understand that. In 2000, for example, the very fact of girls’ boxing was a revolutionary idea when Michelle Rodriguez starred in “Girlfight”, Karyn Kusama’s captivating tale about a violent teen from Brooklyn who uses boxing to express herself. However, this was already some time ago, and The Fire Inside presents more of a picture of hard-earned success and glory. Claressa Shields, nicknamed T-Rex, was only 17 in 2012 when she made headlines for becoming the first US female boxer to win an Olympic gold medal. This was not a one-off, as she did this again 4 years later, and made history as the first US female boxer to win two Olympics in a row.

In light of her age, we anticipate a narrative of aggression and resilience, or the unyielding advancement of a boxer whose true identity is that of a rhythmically vicious machine. This is sacrosanct devotees as the film known as ‘The Fire Inside’ provides that release: it’s a real belly buster. However, the film is also underpinned by a brutal understanding of what one’s victory can often cost. The development of the drama helps to construct the enormous twist which it throws to the audience. And this is when the film becomes really fun.

The Fire Inside is the debut feature by Rachel Morrison who has etched her name in the film’s cinematography as the force behind the focuses of Fruitvale Station, Mudbound and Black Panther and in this film all her other struggles have found peace – New Hollywood well known for its quintessential reality in mainstream movies. The Fire Inside lets you feel the Flint chill of late autumn. Viewers are treated to the disconsolate monotony of Claressa’s house if it could be called a home where there is always something missing in the cupboards. Above all, You understand what a mean lt big yet frightening of Claressa she is.

It\’s not that she is \”unlovable\”. It\’s rather that new and promising actress Ryan Destiny expertly constricts and shifts her Sheen’s, ‘vexation’ charm into the vice of Claressa herself. Words escape the mouth of Claressa because she knows the value of a word — ain’t worth speaking. The relationship that she develops with Jason, the trainer, is a conflicted mix of admiration and rivalry. If you think that Brian Tyree Henry has not played this type of a character before — a predictable loving country man who’s not quite amiable, you are mistaken. What he also does this time around is riveting in a different way. Jason, bespectacled and sporting a soul patch, came to the game rather meekly but soon got far over his head. He’s not an expert; he’s a security officer with a sideline in coaching. And he understands that the only thing he could do with a 14 century great storm like Claressa, is try and attempt to limit and harness her power. However, the reverse isn\’t true. Following Claressa\’s selection for the 2012 Olympic trials in Shanghai, she is able to go because he could not pay for her. And how it affects her is that she gets disturbed.

In the light of the sports movie genre itself, it can be said that it has received careful development over the years: one has to win. However, as Barry Jenkins, one of the writers of “The Fire Inside,” gets us to understand, there’s an interesting turning point. It is said that once she is inside the ring, Claressa simply does not give up. The fighting scenes are pretty exciting as Ryan Destiny makes you feel the rage she is trying to contain. And when she finally stands victorious for the first time, it is quite satisfying to the viewer. It makes one feel the release they are looking for in such situations, but you think, “But wait. This movie is only halfway done.

What can make someone look at a Black girl from a small town called Flint and see a winner on the biggest stage of the Olympics? What could be bad about that? This is because. Once again, Claressa is a boxer, and she has plenty of opportunities to further expand her career in professional boxing. But part of what she wants is for her success to translate into — surprise, surprise — money. She has proven herself as a champion, an icon and has made her country great again. So why don’t we just pay her?

In addition, the Olympians tend to become celebrities and obtain contracts to promote products from multiple firms. But there are none for Claressa. Every sponsor makes quite the effort to acquire her and quickly gives up.

Why? This is because the said businesses thrive on a crafted image of their choice. Even in the 2010s, the idea of women engaging in a fistfight in a boxing ring was seen as distasteful, and rightly so. “What do you think about girls’ boxing?” The entities that hold the financial power do not endorse this concept.

‘The Fire Inside’ takes the leap from being just a sports film to a critique of American commercialism, much like ‘Air’. But ‘Air’, quite clearly, was not all about the business of pushing a shoe. It was about race and about what Michael Jordan’s celebrity status really meant and the worth that we have to place on an athlete in particular, and why. Marketing, in the American scheme of things, is one of the metaphysical signs of our culture; in its capitalist way it is like an embodiment of fairness and equality. So when Claressa embarks on a quest to not only be a spokesperson for brands and break the glass ceiling of sponsorships as an Olympic women’s boxer, this isn’t something she is doing out of the ring. It is boxing. Its waging war against the system or rather shattering it to pieces with her bare hands. And we cannot fail to be inspired by Ryan Destiny’s portrayal. It is thus easy to see why Claressa’s expression and scowl, her deliberate defiance to nurture anybody is exactly tailored for the needs of this struggle.

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