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>>281774964
I really like this dislocated shoulder exchange.
It reminds and reemphasizes that they really are all just kids/teens. For as much as the delinquents may like to romanticize and even ritualize their street fighting -
particularly here
>>281774531
- there's that young masculine urge to formalize the violence, to elevate it and make it important, something worthy. A contest of strength, of technique, of will-power. A kind of ritual wherein you prove your place - your honour - and you walk away with glory and battle-scars.
That's the fantasy, that image of a Man, beaten, bleeding, scarred but ultimately standing Tall, Proud and Victorious.