{"id":653299,"date":"2025-02-13T01:45:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T22:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-the-fire-inside-take-one-and-film-reviews\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T01:45:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T22:45:19","slug":"watch-the-fire-inside-take-one-and-film-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-fire-inside-take-one-and-film-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch  The Fire Inside | TAKE ONE and Film Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a39b78363220\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a39b78363220\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-fire-inside-take-one-and-film-reviews\/#%E2%80%9CThe_Fire_Inside_TAKE_ONE_Watch_Online%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;The Fire Inside | TAKE ONE Watch Online&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThe_Fire_Inside_TAKE_ONE_Watch_Online%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;The Fire Inside | TAKE ONE Watch Online&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The open wounds of the Flint water crisis carefully set the stage for THE FIRE INSIDE, a narrative brimming with the same vulnerabilities and resilience as the community that surrounds it. In April of 2024, the people of Flint, Michigan, organised a march to observe the tenth anniversary of the Flint water crisis. The crisis sprang from a change in the city\u2019s water supply, which contaminated it with lead. Flint, once nicknamed Vehicle City due to being a leading manufacturer of carriages and automobiles, is the setting for boxing drama THE FIRE INSIDE, originally titled FLINT STRONG.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Flint\u2019s water crisis and coarse winter textures are the backbone of Rachel Morrison\u2019s directorial debut, which finds Clarissa \u2018T-Rex\u2019 Shields (Ryan Destiny), a 17-year-old Black woman, fighting for her chance to compete in the 2012 Olympics. Morrison is familiar with an underdog story of Flint\u2019s and Shields\u2019 ilk. She made a name for herself as the first Oscar-nominated female cinematographer for her work on MUDBOUND, telling Time when she was nominated that \u201cMen tend to be given the benefit of the doubt. Women usually have to prove ourselves time and time again\u201d. She frames each fight as if it were the last, an uphill battle with which she seems acquainted. When not in the enclosed space of a boxing ring, the film peppers its runtime with establishing shots of derelict buildings, paint-chipped backdrops and water towers that loom large beneath grey skies.<\/p>\n<p>Found amongst the blue-ish concrete cracks of Berston Field House, Shields\u2019 local gym, is the construction of Barry Jenkins\u2019 screenplay. The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> establishes its trajectory early on as if it were a paint-by-numbers sports biopic, before transitioning into an epilogue of that journey by committing the third act to the minutiae of post-Olympic achievement. The tropes of the genre \u2013 sweat-stained montages, punches landing harder outside the ring \u2013 feel like routine cinematic shadowboxing, but the introspective third act is an unexpected uppercut. Without this narrative turn, and the heavyweight performance from Destiny, whose wide-eyed toughness embraces every conversation like an Olympic final, THE FIRE INSIDE risks missing a punch or two.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe tropes of the [sports] genre \u2013 sweat-stained montages, punches landing harder outside the ring \u2013 feel like routine cinematic shadowboxing, but the introspective third act is an unexpected uppercut.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite director Morrison\u2019s postscript implying THE FIRE INSIDE is about equal pay in sport, it is also unavoidably about race. In interviews, Ryan Destiny asserted, \u201cBlack women are to work twice as hard.\u201d As Clarissa\u2019s objective pivots from Olympic gold to cereal boxes and Nike endorsements, both of which are awarded to white athletes, her dispositions crystalise into a constant desire to prove herself amongst her peers. The bitter cold Flint setting also punctuates this aspect of the film\u2019s themes. Beyond the well-known drinking water story, Flint is also an example of the phenomenon known as \u2018white flight\u2019 \u2013 where the population of Black people grew in proportion to White people as those with the means to do so fled the area. This context provides the backdrop to the reality that the now predominantly Black community are not the ones who chose to change Flint\u2019s water source, as well as Clarissa\u2019s struggles in the film. \u201cYou got this fire inside you\u201d, Bryan Tyree Henry urges, in a quiet yet familiarly warm turn as Shield\u2019s coach Jason Crutchfield, underscoring the fact that Shield\u2019s biggest fight is at home.<\/p>\n<p>At one stage, Jason chuckles affectionately to his wife and explains that a young girl, new to the community centre, insisted she would \u201cbe the next Clarissa Shields.\u201d During Clarissa\u2019s final fight, Morrison cuts to crowds of people enchanted by the TV\u2019s glow, and this girl was likely amongst the congregation observing. In April of 2024, when Flint\u2019s real community marched, they observed a different victory: safe drinking water. THE FIRE INSIDE\u2019s final act is checkered with relics of Shields\u2019 win \u2013 billboards, old <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>papers and signed photographs \u2013 that are just as rickety as Flint itself, but serve as the demonstration of a community that has a culture of resilience and spirit that ensures its stories continue to be told.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/KFyNvUmJzmE?si=a71I9fRRT2JKdMg1&amp;controls=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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