Violence Embodied in a Boxer’s Rise and Fall
di A. O. Scott The New York Times
The first thing you see in “Tyson,”James Toback’s powerful and troubling new documentary, is an old television clip showing Mike Tyson, on Nov. 22, 1986, defeating Trevor Berbick to win the W.B.C. heavyweight title. Just 20 years old, Mr. Tyson was the youngest fighter to win that belt, and to see him take it is to recall, especially in light of the shambling, thuggish caricature he would later become, what a dazzling and ferocious boxer he was in his prime.
The only thing more astonishing than the speed of his combinations was their force, and his ability to blend quickness with brute strength quickly overpowered his early opponents, not many of whom lasted very long in the ring with him. [...]
di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (6741 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 24 aprile 2009
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