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Redbelt is like every boxing epitome you ever saw: a gifted, morally principled, rather na fighter discovers that the real community is full of crooks and shysters. The fighter reluctantly confronts those who would smirch his name and game, wins some sort of conditional success over them. And gets the girl besides.

There is, however, one difference between novelist-director David Mamet's integument and other fight game tales; it is not about boxing. It is about a mixed soldierly arts, combat that involves elements of jiu-jitsu, backlash-boxing and the many other weird ways men have devised to do accomplished bodily harm to one another. That gives Redbelt an fresh edge that somewhat separates it from the boxing variety. This advantage is greatly enhanced by its prime mover, Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor, who is but in the role). Mike is a black tract jiu-jitsu instructor, running a none-too-leading school in South Central Los Angeles, yet refusing to fight for the folding money that would lift him out of poverty. He holds to the hoary Samurai Code, which insists that struggle is crass, a dishonor to the purity of the "art" that he practices. Jiu-Jitsu, he insists, is not about prepossessing and losing, it is about finding "escapes" from perilous situations, escapes that allow both participants to retract from combat with their honor intact. You might say that it is like a rugged and physically graceful form of chess, in which the most skilfully possible result would be a draw.

As I to all intents don't need to tell you, Mike has his problems maddening to maintain his austere values in fashionable Los Angeles. All kinds of troubled people — a frenzied counsel, a louche movie star, a wicked producer and a rich variety of thugs and toughs swim through his way of life. On top of which his wife — who seemed pretty OK for awhile — betrays him because she has capital troubles of her own. Eventually, reluctantly, he decides to fight for moolah, except that he discovers that the card on which he's booked is rigged. So he�

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