The Iron Claw, 2023

✫ 9.5/10

The Iron Claw is a 2023 movie directed by Sean Durkin with Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, and Harris Dickinson.

It is the true story of the Von Erich brothers who were the most famous family in professional wrestling, under the shadow of their dominant father and all the tragedies in their lives, the brothers need to count on only their love for each other as a safe space.

This is by far one of the most surprising movies I have seen. The whole cast is unbelievable talent, Zac Efron being in a lifetime acting. He not receive even a indication at the Oscars is something I will never understand. 

The whole story is something dark and sad and when you think `it can’t be worse than that`… well it can. And the feeling that stays in you when it finishes and know that everything that happened in the movie is REAL your stomach drops (and even more when you read about the real story is even darker than the movie).

The relationship between the brothers is something so beautiful and almost magical to see. In a world of darkness, their relationship is a light in the movie. You see during the movie that their brotherhood is the most important thing for them, is the thing that push them forward and to each other. And is actually very easy to like them. From the beginning you see that their father is a bad person even comparing his sons the whole movie but one thing he did good was know that they needed to have a good relationship between the four of them.

In the end I felt that The Iron Claw was a movie that deserved more recognition and love in this nominations year. It is a very genuine and very beautiful movie, that tells a story that probably most of the audience not know and do in a masterful way of story telling. Is not by far a boring movie, and don’t use the tragic events of the movie only to shock the audience. In fact, makes the movie a tribute to all of the brothers.

It was definitely a must see movie of 2023 and is a shame that some people didn’t see that.