Tyson - From Dynamite To Nitroglycerin

Tyson, the movie, was kind of brilliant. It's a long interview with the man himself and several portions of the movie use large chunks of it as narration along with stock footage of his fights and past interviews. It really provides a lot of insight into the man, why he rose, why he fell, and why he is the way he is. I was in grade school when he was making his rise and he will always be my champ just as Ali will always be the champ to people from that generation. It was good to see footage of how good he really was. The movie reminded me a lot of the Being Bobby Brown show that aired a few years back when everyone assumed Bobby was making Whitney crazy only to have the curtain raise to reveal he was the more sane of the couple. There's insight into who he was as a child getting picked on and beaten up, then falling in with the wrong crowd, eventually finding redemption in boxing and realizing that no one would be able to hurt him again. By the time he'd become a champion he'd already been through what seems like one lifetime. His second lifetime didn't turn out so well. It was amazing to hear him in his own words describe his career and see it unfold on camera. A-/92/9.0

For those that didn't get the reference, as dynamite ages it sweats nitroglycerin and becomes all the more combustible.
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