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??!! / Film Go See Tyson
Posted by Lindy West on Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:50 AM
Due to completely uninteresting circumstances, we wound up without a review of Tyson when it opened. MISTAKE! I went last weekend and wrote about it here:
Tyson—a 90-minute documentary about Mike Tyson—is not at all what you'd expect from a first-person sports narrative (it's really just one long interview with the boxer, supplemented with old photos and fight footage). There's no grandstanding or blowhard pomposity or hollow equivocation about why the champ eventually fell. It just is what it is: a sad, guileless, freakishly candid story told by a gigantic child who could kill you with his hands. IT IS AMAZING.
Showtimes here.
Also I would like to thank Paul Constant for the ingenious headline "Of Tyson Men."
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