Antwone Fisher

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• Antwone Fisher

   

  By Professor Cornelieus from London , 11 Nov 2003

  [Highly rated reviewer]

  This is a story of a young man regaining his power after a bitterly
  
  oppressive childhood. But the film also manages,along the way, to be a
  
  powerful advert for therapy, as well as the more benevolent aspects of
  
  the US navy. Denzel Washington stars in and directs the movie, which is
  
  why it garned world-wide interest in the first place. But the real gems
  
  of the film belong to the rest of the class, especially Derek Luke who
  
  plays the Antwone Fisher himself, and Joy Bryant who plays his
  
  girlfriend.
  
  Antwone Fisher is an angry, confrontational sailor who manages to
  
  regain his power and self respect with the help of a Navy psychiatrist
  
  (Washington). The film explores, with the use of clever editing, the
  
  brutal childhood in an abusive orphanage that led to Fisher's anger. It
  
  concludes that nothing is quite as simple as all that, especially when
  
  Fisher is reunited with his mother. The film is at its best when the
  
  dialogue falls silent.
  
  Not quite a timeless classic, not exactly a standard tear jerker, this
  
  film nevertheless deserves to be remembered, if only for its wonderful
  
  opening sequence.

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