‘Iron Clan’
Manager: Sean Durkin
Artists: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Holt McCallany
Year: 2023
Premiere: 3/15/24
★★★
HE professional wrestling This is more like a theater play than an actual sport, but it has been amply proven that those who do it often suffer. physical and psychological consequences so real. Perhaps no one has paid as high a price for their success in this industry as they did. Von ErichA family dynasty rose to fame before being rocked by a series of tragedies.
While he was thinking about this decline, his third feature film Sean Durkin It works as a sincere devotion. Observe and engage in the world of ‘wrestling’ seriously and without condescension Flashy, perfectly choreographed fight scenesHe manages to instill in us the love and respect he feels for the young characters who are destroyed by the destructive power of the father’s authority.
Durkin is likewise more interested in wrapping the film in a funeral atmosphere than creating melodrama, and he is more effective at this task than giving Von Erich’s children more than brawn and misfortune; they miss each other scenes of brotherly interaction a work that can give them depth and show the sincerity and details of the bond between them.
Therefore in the second half of ‘Iron Clan’ run from one disaster to another and although Durkin eliminates one of the hapless brothers from the story entirely, he eventually makes an offer. pure trauma inventory rather than a truly overwhelming human drama.