在这部贫民窟的拳击少年纪录片片中,本片呈现了两个富有张力的人物：前黑帮罪犯从良的拳击手教练和贫民窟里走出来的少年拳击手。教练迷途知返，用自己的退休金免费教贫民窟的孩子们拳击，为的是让他们不会重走自己的歪路。少年拳击手富有天赋、但贫穷、工作、老套的父亲、女友以及腹中胎儿都成为他训练的阻碍。影片长期跟拍，拳击手从一个稚嫩少年在片中渐渐成长为负责任的男人教，让人不禁想想也许有一条路可以走出贫民区，实现人生理想……导演采取了剧情片的叙事策略，起承转合和细节铺陈都到位，但又很好地保持了纪录片的质感，摄影、用光出色，技巧成熟，黑白遮幅的使用非常风格化，使运动场面充满视觉现场感，是难得一见的高水准运动纪录片。
Logline: A former mafia man of the infamous Budapest Ghetto has been teaching boxing to the poor young children of the neighborhood for the past eight years. One of his students fights his way up to box for a world championship belt. He receives the chance to prove his fellows that there may be a way out of the ghetto.\n\nThe documentary follows a boxing coach and his trainee from the very beginning to the first successes. Both characters are of Roma origins from the infamous Ghetto in the middle of Budapest. Misi Sipos (60), an ex member of the 8th district mafia, while recovering in a prison hospital after a shootout with a rival gang, turned to God and left behind his criminal past. As his personal \"mission\" he started a local community boxing club aimed at young children from troubled families, to keep them away from crime and show them an alternative for their future. Zoli Szabó (21) is one of these kids. He has been boxing in the amateur league under Misi's guidance for 6 years. Zoli lives in a one bedroom apartment with his dad, stepmother, half sister and his fiance, who is already pregnant. Despite his young age he has to face up to the responsibility of providing for his new family. He has a tough decision to make, as he either becomes a professional boxer, which comes with a lot of sacrifices or he follows in the footsteps of his mobster father.\n\nThe film is about the path they take together. Misi as a father figure does everything in his might to spare Zoli from the mistakes he had made in his past. The documentary follows them through this journey, day by day in real life situations, avoiding talking heads and other formative elements of traditional factual movies.
励志少年改变命运。
