The song fits the Gatti video so well. At first I was skeptical, but the lyrics and such just fit so well, as does the music itself.
"Cause I don't think that they'd understand" - People who don't follow the sport do not understand why someone would take and endure so much punishment for the benefit of his fans and his pride. That was Gatti.
"When everthing's made to be broken" - His bones, his skin perhaps, but NEVER his will or his heart. That was Gatti.
"I just want you to know who I am" - That's all, just to know who he was, nevermind having a catalog of fights that can bring a tear to a random fan's eye everytime they watch them.
He was right, there will never be another Arturo Gatti, but people won't just miss him 20 and 30 years downt he road. They miss him now and forever.
What do you mean wank? The music is perfect for Gatti.
I think he means it isn't to his taste, a bit too AOR power ballad-y, probably.
Have never exactly loved that tune either - but in that context, it's glorious. I've often been moved by songs I wouldn't ordinarily listen to when accompanying movie scenes as 'found' music score. You get great directors with intuitive mastery of 'found' music as score - almost objectively, distanced from subjective concerns of taste, they understand what song will click where or will provide the right emotional counterpoint or oblique meaning, however incongruous it would seem on paper...and the GP21 guy has shown the same understanding here. As viewer, it's just a matter of dropping your ingrained aesthetic hang-ups and allowing yourself to be moved.
Makes me think of how you can't totally control your life's soundtrack short of isolating yourself completely from everything - often times, songs you keep hearing on the radio, in clubs or blaring from passing car windows at meaningful times in your life become inextricably linked to that time of your being. That's the reality and freewheelin', joyously haphazard chance element of life the movies should reflect...and Gatti's life and career were nothing short of cinematic.
The editing with the music is very artful, too...during the slashing instrumental break, especially.
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