In many ways it's a film about the weight of the past. What Rocky has lost and left behind, the expectations on Adonis because of his father
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The past is everywhere in the film. In the film's gyms, the walls are plastered with faded fight posters from decades past.
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The final scene, the great final shot: looking back, looking ahead, at Rocky and Adonis' lives, and at Rocky's cinematic legacy.
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It's also just a beautifully shot film that makes great use of Philadelphia's neighborhoods and people.
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@carolynmichelle it's also a story about the transformation of rocky's philadelphia from a white working class city to something new.
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OTOH it starts out raising questions about the life of a fighter and the toll that takes but drops them to be a typical rousing sports movie
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@carolynmichelle Sounds like my average Sunday. - Show replies
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