Paddy Considine’s Journeyman is fiction but it has lessons for boxing | Sean Ingle
Labour of love is an examination of ‘the fragility of the sport and life itself – and what happens when the crowds have gone away’There is a scene at the start of Paddy Considine’s compelling new film, Journeyman, about a boxer who suffers brain damage after a world title fight, that rattles the senses like a sharp one-two.One moment Considine’s character, Matty Burton, is celebrating retaining the belt with his wife; the next he is dabbing at his head before crashing to the floor unconscious. And, at a stroke, his life’s roulette wheel has spun from glory to tragedy, with no sense it will find equilibrium again. Related: Can Paddy Considine's Journeyman land a knockout blow for British boxing movies?...