Max Schmeling

Rating: 80%


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Also Known As:

Max Schmeling: Fist of the Reich

Version:

Language:

Length:

118 minutes

Review Format:

DVD

Year:

2010

Country:

Predominant Genre:

Historical

Director:

Outstanding Performances:

None

Premiss:

The story of boxing icon Max Schmeling.

Themes:

Compassion

Courage

Destiny

Emotional repression

Empathy

Ethnicity

Friendship

Genocide

Humanity

Identity

Individualism

Justice

Love

Loyalty

Materialism

Narcissism

Nationality

Personal

Political

Political Correctness

Role modeling

Sadomasochism

Schizophrenia

Solipsism

The State

Stereotyping

White culture

White supremacy

Similar to:

Chariots of Fire

It is not the Taking Part, It is the Winning

Summary: How Whites use sport to appear better than everybody else.

Fine boxing movie with a telling portrayal of how Whites use sport as a political tool to vainly prove their alleged genetic supremacy by favoring White athletes - who win. (The political desperation, here, has become so great that twenty-first century Whites even support White athletes who win little; eg, Tim Henman & Anna Kournikova.)

Whites, here, possess no loyalty to, nor love for, sport - as such - only to winners: Losers are offered neither support nor help. What they really love is Whiteness being seen as best in all things; inevitable, when politics is conflated with sport - which Whites claim to never do, but do all the time; eg, 1936 Berlin & 1980 Moscow Olympics. (Indeed, the claim that sport and politics should never mix is, itself, a political statement mixed-up with sport.)

The typical White confusion of Ethnicity with Nationality creates the ambivalence-anger that Whites want the White boxer to beat the Black; while simultaneously wanting the American boxer (Black) to beat the German (White). Trying to have their cake & eat it means Whites must compromise by foregrounding Ethnicity, when it suits them, and Nationality - when it suits them differently. This lack of White consistency explains the fact that Whites will only promote sports at which they are currently paramount - as they used to do (& be) with boxing.

As in all confusions of the Personal with the Political, everything inevitably becomes Personal (compare with, Oath of Personal Loyalty to Hitler) such that there is no sense of White honor, self-respect nor ethics. Unlike boxing movies of old, where the noble fighter is told to take a dive, this film shows a man who understands that he fights for himself, first, before other considerations like his family, his country or his ethnic group.

The only failing here is that the full extent of the White desire to use White politics to demonstrate what White science cannot - White supremacy - is more often hinted-at than fully expressed; eg, Hitler’s anger at Jesse Owens winning four gold medals in Berlin - despite the latter’s alleged genetic inferiority. But the deft characterization compensates and is ably-assisted by workmanlike acting; allowing the audience to clearly know who-is-who and what-is-what.

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