"In the Octagonal Cage" is your own "333 Abdominal Bars" in real life. Six years ago, the first film he directed received extremely low ratings and poor reputation. It was named "The Most Disappointing Film" and "The Most Disappointing Director" by the "Golden Broom Awards". What people didn't expect was that, He actually rushed to the scene to receive the award and sincerely apologized to the audience. Six years later, Wang Baoqiang staged a beautiful comeback with the movie "The Octagon", winning box office and gaining reputation.

This film tells the fateful trajectory of a group of left-behind children and their fighting coach who were "as raw as weeds and unyielding". They finally stood in the Octagon fighting ring, won the championship, and broke through the cage of fate. , allowing children who had no way out to usher in the dawn of light that illuminates their lives. Meeting them with no choice

In "The Octagon", Xiang Tenghui, played by Wang Baoqiang, was once a gold medal-winning fighter. He was sentenced for injuring the coach who forced him to use banned substances. jail. After that, he became the owner of a sand and gravel pit and was always on the verge of bankruptcy.

Although his fate is unfavorable, Xiang Tenghui still has the right to choose in life. In the worst case, he can return to his hometown, until he meets a group of Otaki Mountain children who have no choice at all, and fighting becomes They have the same and only way out.

At the beginning of the plot, the owner of the sand and gravel pit who was about to be out of wages asked Tenghui to borrow money from the unscrupulous businessman Wang Jingfu (played by Xiao Yang), but the other party wanted to borrow money from Tenghui's "former fighting champion" Name sells.

As a last resort, Xiang Tenghui agreed and captured a group of wild boys who had intercepted and robbed vehicles in the sand and gravel field. They formed a fighting team under false pretenses and prepared to fool investors together with Wang Jingfu.

Unexpectedly, the "play" was not completed, but the stage collapsed and the profiteer Wang Jingfu was arrested. The fate of these children became a problem for Xiang Tenghui.

"Otakiyama's kid, what should you do in charge of football?" the profiteer said during the prison visit. It means, let these children continue to fend for themselves. Xiang Tenghui originally wanted to do this, but when he came to the home of his children Su Mu and Ma Hu in Otaki Mountain, he fell silent. In the dilapidated loess house, Su Mu and his careless sister were paralyzed on the bed. The quilt was dirty and torn, and the real family had only four walls.

From then on, Xiang Tenghui became the children's coach and began high-intensity training. For many people, training is hard, but for these children, having food to eat, a bed to sleep on, and shoes to wear is the greatest happiness.

In order to survive, Xiang Tenghui began to take his children to perform fake boxing in bars and clubs to gain popularity for nightclubs, but he was discovered soon after. Since you can't fake punches, let's start the real fight. Children no longer train for "performance", but for real fighting. In fact, Xiang Tenghui is fulfilling his unfulfilled dream. He was once a fighting champion, but because he was deceived by his coach into taking medication, he was fired and left the fighting stage.

They all want to earn a living and realize their dreams in the octagonal cage.

Earn a way out of life through fighting

In 2017, a video went viral online. In the video, two shirtless 12-year-old children were fighting fiercely in an iron cage, leaving both of them with severe head injuries. Outside the iron cage, a group of adults were shouting excitedly. According to the video, this child from Liangshan who lost his parents was adopted by a fighting club in Chengdu, where he usually practices mixed martial arts and participates in commercial performances.

This is the Liangshan "Fighting Orphans" incident that shocked the whole country. This club in Chengdu and its leader En Bo were brought to the forefront and labeled as "allowing minors to engage in black boxing" and became the target of public criticism. In the end, some children were sent back to the mountains, while Enbo, the "evil villain" in everyone's mouth, broke down and cried in front of the camera.

"The Octagon" is adapted from this real incident, presenting this scene that happened in reality six years ago.

In the movie, the club founded by Xiang Tenghui is getting bigger and bigger, and its business is booming. Parents and children continue to come here because of its reputation. Just when everyone thought fighting could help them change their destiny, fate made a big joke.

Just like the real-life Enbo Fighting Club, in the play, videos of Xiang Tenghui Club’s past fights are circulated on the Internet. Teenagers engage in “cruel and bloody” fights, which is exciting. The sensitive nerves of the public. The media blocked the club's door and even went to Xiang Tenghui's hometown to "dig deep and get to the bottom of things." Soon, Xiang Tenghui was tied to the moral trial frame and became a bad guy who people said was "trafficking children and engaging in black boxing". Many children returned to the mountains and returned to their previous life trajectories. At the same time, in order not to affect the development of Sumu, Mahu and other moderately successful players, Xiang Tenghui "packaged" them and transferred them to a new club.

But not long after, Xiang Tenghui discovered that he was wrong. One night, while driving, Xiang Tenghui found a stone blocking the road ahead. Seeing this familiar "modus operandi", Xiang Tenghui's heart sank. As expected, it was done carelessly and he returned to his old business. From Ma Hu's mouth, Xiang Tenghui got even more heartbreaking news. Su Mu's leg was injured and he has been bedridden.

It turned out that after Su Mu came to the new club, he refused the coach's request to take medicine, and his leg was broken by the club during the resistance.

Xiang Tenghui was heartbroken. He did not expect that the children would end up like this. He kicked open the door of the club and beat up the person in charge of the other party. He also left himself covered with bruises, but it didn't help. The other party had Su Mu's contract. Even if Su Mu recovered from his injury, he would not be able to stand in the fighting ring. superior.

In order to allow Su Mu and more children to stand cleanly in the "octagonal cage", Xiang Tenghui, who had previously refused media interviews, chose to take the initiative to stand in the spotlight this time. During the interview, he "admitted" to deceiving the children, but after saying "They are a group of people who can't even deceive them except me", everyone in the audience fell silent. Everyone couldn't help but reflect on the children. Where is the way out?

This interview has rekindled society’s attention to fighting boys and exposed the evil deeds of those clubs. In the end, Su Mu stood in the ring again and won the world championship, while Xiang Tenghui's fighting club reopened with the help of all walks of life.