Today on TV | Will Smith convincingly plays the coach father of the Williams tennis sisters

Between it is impossible to separate the film from the publicity that surrounds it, even if these two things actually have nothing to do with each other.

About tennis siblings Venus and About Serena Williams as well as their coach father of Richard Williams a narrative gentle biopic King Richard: The Williams Story (King Richard2021) still suffers from its main star, the actor Will Smith'sabout the startling tantrum at the spring 2022 Oscars.

Smith's more than 30-year career crumbled in front of the whole world in the early hours of March 28, 2022 Finnish time, when the overheated star marched on stage during the live Oscar broadcast and slapped the host Chris Rock suddenly in the face.

Only moments before, Rock had joked about Smith's actress wife suffering from baldness Jada Pinkett Smith, of short hair. Smith was able to pick up an hour later King Richard – the Oscar he won for the film, but the end result was a ten-year ban on future Oscar parties.

The starring role brought him an Oscar, but destroyed his career.

King Richard – the movie would have deserved better. The dark irony is that Smith's violent outburst tarnished not only himself but also a film that essentially preaches the power of exemplary behavior.

The handsome story of the Williams' talented athlete siblings is described in a warm-hearted film from the point of view of their father, Richard. The drama is full of love and tenderness but also discipline.

King Richard tells how the strong-willed head of his family trains his obedient 4-5-year-old daughters to become amazing star players in a decade – despite the fact that their hometown, the Compton area of ​​Los Angeles, known as the black ghetto, is both mentally and physically far from the tennis courts run by white people.

The reference to the king in the film's title is no accident.

Such a simple starting point would not necessarily work, if the film's implementation and its actors did not have the drive to resist excessive sugariness, which is always in one way or another baked into the stories told about the trials of brave successful athletes.

Smith plays the noble fire of father Richard convincingly. From the outside, the role exudes caring warmth and from the inside pain, which reminds us that the social position of black Americans is also at stake.

The bigger bright spots are still those who play Venus and Serena Saniyya Sidney and Demi Singletonwhich believably bring out both the siblings' childlike enthusiasm from their young age and the perseverance needed in training.

Supervisor Reinaldo Marcus Green draws perfect parallels between Father Richard's past poverty and discrimination and his current determination.

Realism still sometimes gives way to glorifying the main characters. Inevitably, one is reminded of how much the real Williams siblings and their half-sisters worked as producers of the film Isha Price have finally smoothed out the edges of their life story.

King Richard: The Story of the Williamses, Kutonen at 21:00. A biographical drama. ★★★

The nine-year-old owns 36 guns

British reporter and investigative journalist Stacey Dooley has interestingly depicted various social problem topics in his documentaries.

Stacey Dooley in Night Village – series is visited as Maria Veitola especially in special and different families. Whereas Veitola's visits to the villages are comfortably homely, Dooley's places to visit are something completely different.

That's also the episode you can see now, where Dooley goes to spend the weekend with a gun-crazy family.

An American family lives in a trailer, and the parents' bedroom is locked because there are a lot of guns. However, they are not shown to Dooley, nor to the viewers. About one million other Americans also live in similar mobile homes.

A shooting range has been built on the family plot for the nine-year-old who became a social hit Autumn-for the daughter's use. In Oklahoma, with its lax gun laws, a child can practice precision shooting or hunting without age restrictions. In addition to Autumn shooting and showing off weapons, dad films everything and the final results can be viewed on Youtube.

Videos are created every weekday. There are a few million viewers per month. Autumn has owned guns and made gun videos since she was six years old. He shot a gun for the first time at the age of two.

The YouTube channel is paid, and the family makes enough money with it to buy more weapons. They say the purpose of the videos is to show everyone how fun shooting is.

Autumn's targets are also human figures and she might be happy when she hits something in the middle of her forehead.

The girl has never attended regular school, but her mother teaches her a few hours a week. The girl does her other studies with a computer tutorial. I did this so that Autumn wouldn't have to sit on a school bench for eight hours every day and get strange thoughts.

Even in this case, however, the most enthusiastic gunman seems to be the quiet father of the family. He seems to have an obsession with guns, which he has also passed on to his daughter. Although the mother seems to be a bit out of the loop, because she only has five guns. Autumn has 36 of them and almost all of them are decoratively painted!

Timo Kuismin

Stacey Dooley in the night village, TV2 at 22:45.