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THE BOXER (USA)
By Egi David Perdana II

GENRE: Thriller, Drama
LOGLINE:

Simon was a former boxer, he is now very active as a provocateur, and does not have the fatigue of a boxer like his old job, he worked for left-wing organization that was very opposed to the government. One day Simon was sentenced to death because his provocations left many people dead in riots. Shortly he was made a "Political Tool" between the government and the Left wing, Simon finally knew the politics of both the government and the left-wing are equally rotten.

SYNOPSIS:

Simon is an ex-boxer turned provocateur, an active agent for a left-wing clandestine organization. It' anti-government, pro-riot, pro-sabotaging, pro-mass provoking. A politically active man runs the organization.

Simon shares his life with Laurence. Both his parents were killed in a riot in Los Angeles by a group that was run by none other than Simon. Both his mom and dad were shot in turn for a fake accusation that they created the riot. The shooters are Simon's men who pretended to be the police. It was said that Mayor of Los Angeles had ordered on-the-spot execution to whoever involved in the riot.

And of course, most of the victims are those who most loyal to the government. Laurence was attending a singing class when this happened, oblivious to the sinister scheme Simon played to murder his parents. He was eerily singing John Lennon's Working Class Hero when the shot silenced his parents.

But with his active involvement in the left-wing movement, Simon is now a target for major American law enforcement. The FBI wants him, as does the CIA and the police. Thanks to a double agent named Paul Danke, the law enforcer found out about Simon and his whereabouts. Danke, a Swedish by origin, infiltrated Simon's organization for many years, attempting to gather information to be given to the government.

He used an alias by Sam Michel, a low-level member within the organization that prevents him from being able to access classified information on who runs the organization at its highest level. He almost runs out of patience, especially while being regularly pressured by the police about such information.

Order to watch over Simon comes directly from the American President Jacobs Huston, as he found out about Simon and his plot in many riots. Huston suspects Simon, the ex-boxer, to have many followers from the underworld, that caters to the business in murdering people by order. The victims are mostly those who have a pro-government stance, and although killing seems to be rampant so far, no man has been successfully arrested on the ground of murder, for some mysterious figure is protecting them.

President Hustons thought the figure would be a person highly involved in politics, as well as the leading man of the left wing for the group of rioters, had to be governed by a highly skilled and intelligent person while the movement of the left-wing and the rioters are identicals.

Being highly intelligent himself, Simon knew that he was closely watched. He moved between houses, but his evil instinct made him a natural rule breaker for he rarely paid his apartment rent, leaving an apartment owner, Louis, furious. A CIA agent who saw Simon walked out of the apartment, then approached Louis and offered him a deal. CIA promised to erase off of Louis's criminal record, including him being an illegal immigrant of France, plus a permanent job while in return, Louis would talk Simon into being a campaigner for Democratic presidential candidate, Aldan Waldberg.

Waldberg will be running for the presidency while the Democrat is in power. It is the top man at the CIA who ordered the scenario for Simon, a man who belongs to a group of anti-government.

Head of CIA is convinced that Simon would eventually take the bait for he will be tempted to spy on the government's ruling party, while at the same time, they hope they'll be able to reveal the left's long term plan trough Simon. He will be brainwashed and intimidated as well as being slowly repressed to nail the head of Simon's organization eventually.

And Simon did take the bait. He went on clandestinely with his left-wing position while also working as a campaign speaker for presidential hopeful Waldberg. He passed on every information to the organization, including up to 8 confidential info on the government. Among them is a plan to fire Joshua Pernambucho, the current Chief Justice of the country.

Very little people are aware that it is Pernambucho who set up and run the organization to avenge Hustons for failing to reappoint him as secretary of Defense under President Hustons' s the second tenure. Pernambuco has all it takes to sit in such a position having both military and police general credentials in the past. Upon hearing n info about his sacking, the born-Mexican is committed to ruining Huston's government.

The justice has long been known as the most corrupt state institution, for 70 percent of 1250 corruption cases in the US comes from it under Pernambucho's lead. He argued the bad mark comes from the rotten moral of his underlings, not from his leadership. In the end, he built the Organization as more and more members of the Republican party, also under the leadership of Pernambuco, were being caught for both corruption and bribery. He insisted his party fellows are no dirtier than the Democrats, under the rule of Hustons.

Main activities of the left organization that Joshua created is to turn law-abiding citizen against the government, usually by provoking them through issues that could make them hate the authorities. This is where Simon plays a major role: he's good at convincing people that the riots he provoked involved hundreds of thousands of people. The US has never seen the chaos of this magnitude that, eventually, the country was declared under emergency.

Simon works on a personal provocation too, one Paul Cohen had been successfully being provoked to kill 17 members of parliament under the allegation that they're guilty of masterminding the republican accused of corruption while only two were guilty. Others were killed under pretense after a highlighted news on the media. Cohen killed all the MP to avenge for the death of his lover, a member of the republican party. He's a bisexual who has promised would never change partner and only married his wife for fear she would tell people of his sexual orientation.

Paul's son is Jordan, happens to be Laurence's classmate. They get along well, each telling proud stories of their father not knowing that Jordan's father was the victim of Laurence's stepfather provocation. But Simon doesn't know that both Paul and Jordan are related despite the shared last name.

When he was campaigning for Aldan in Washington, Simon was kidnapped by the CIA and later being subjected to torture and interrogation. He was kept in a seemingly random old building where he saw with his own eyes how anti-Americans were being abused until near-dead. It was a technique meant to torture Simon's mind to force him talking. But he wouldn't budge. He was willing to die and but soon the CIA realized that he was their prized-hostage and CIA field chief Joseph Murdock changed tactics. He offered to finance Laurence education to a doctoral level, a secret ideal that Simon has kept for his adopted son.

Murdock asked Simon for names of the secret organization's top people accused of planning mutiny, but Simon refused. He said Laurence is very intelligent; he wouldn't need any help getting the degree. Murdock changed course: he published pictures of massacres including towards Laurence's parents. The headline said: Simon the boxer and tomorrow we'll never know. Laurence was shocked and furious and he started to find ways to avenge. CIA used this to ask Laurence to find any documents that Simon might keep at their home. Laurence was also given a promise of financial help for her education up to a doctoral degree.

Simon and the headline made a very popular topic among members of the public until he was sentenced to death. But, for political reasons, he was kept alive to force the disbandment of the leftist organization because he was seen as a vital member of the organization. But they were wrong, for Simon was nothing but a busy boy.

Johsua has picked a replacement for Simon, Ron Hubert, who received the order to finish Aimon in jail. Stewart Johnson was sent to make the killing, but after many attempts, he failed. Meanwhile, the public has started to panic with the rumour about left organization left them to be suspicious of one another for fear each was involved within the organization. The couple broke up, school students expelled, all for the same fear. Even Laurence became the victim of this mass suspicion, especially because his stepfather was known to be a left-wing leader. Laurence eventually finds the place where Simon hid his documents: under his bed. He gave the document to Joseph. It revealed the names of members of the organization who mostly from eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America.

Some are even members of the Taliban or other underground organizations such as the Illuminati and Freemason. A distinguished name surfaced: Mahmoud Farhad, a man who was suspected of trafficking arms for the Taliban. Next was Lorenzo de Emmanuel, a marijuana dealer from Cuba. He served as the organization's treasury with hundreds of million-dollar money-per-week he made from the marijuana business. The current President of Cuba is Bunuel Olivera, who let everything goes on for he is a marijuana addict. He passed the law legalizing drugs which invited opposition from inside and outside the country, including criticism from the UN. But Olivera's party is very strong, and he has no match in power. In the US, the ruling Republican party always vetoed a proposal to attack Cuba under the reason that attacking Cuba would only claim civilian lives with no tenable target achieved.

Another name that comes up was Zuran Yimak, a very important figure for the organization for his role in connecting external people to internal from the organization. He also recruited civilians for the organization the way MOSSAD recruits civilians. One recruit will only be given one task; once it’s done, the civilian will be expelled from the organization and ordered to shut up, with the reward of some amount of money.

Zuran and Farhad were arrested while Lorenzo was surprisingly later released to the rumour that the source of massacre pictures was him. Lorence then went missing for eight months to the rumour that the CIA gave him luxurious life for his cooperation. The truth is, although he did receive a hundred dollars from the CIA, Lorenzo lived fearfully hiding in a bunker, and after for months, he tried to find a job on a cruise ship as a waiter. But he was much into depression for betraying his best friend Simon for hundreds of thousand dollars and he eventually committed suicide. His body was found on the ship. The authorities concluded that the organization killed him while the organization thought the CIA killed Lorenzo.

Meanwhile, Simon is about to be brought to court, but hours before judge Stephen Wildmark who will preside over the courtroom was shot. Wildmark survived, but he has to be treated in a hospital under heavy security. The court was being adjourned. The shooter is Steve Qualis, one sympathizer to Simon. Qualis hates the government, but he has no connection to the organization, but for his action, the conflict between the organization and the government rages on.

As was mentioned before, Peter Danke - under the disguised name Sam Michel inside the organization – is a double agent trying to infiltrate the organization for the government. Peter is the best friend of Luke Lewis, who is a friend of Jacobs. But since Luke chooses to rally for Nganko Sembene, an American of Nigerian descent, for presidential hopeful from the Republican party, the relationship between Luke and Jacobs broken. Knowing this, Jacob’s enemy, Johsua, recruited Luke for the organization. Nganko also got support from Jacobs; both men have made some political deals. Luke later got a lot of support from Jacobs and CIA, the police and FBI. Sam Peter from inside the organization has compiled many pieces of information, especially with the involvement of Luke in many cases against the law, but he can never process it because the three big institutions were protecting Luke.

Several days before Simon is about to be executed, he received a new offer: if he’s willing to reveal who the head of the organization, he will be freed. Jacobs has some plans, but so does Johsua. He is very vengeful to Jacobs, for he is the one who lethally injected his wife, Marlene, because Marlene was once known to be very vocal against the government. From Marlene, the authorities soon suspect her brother Abraham Starley and Johsua, her husband. Abraham soon cleared from the allegation of involvement with the organization, for he is a pro-government personality. However, he is still under the authorities' watch list for fear he disguised his action for the benefit of the organization.

Simon found out that Johsua wanted to kill him, via Stewart. Even some police officers have also been recruited to do the mission to kill Simon. Simon soon realized that both government and organization are playing a nasty trick to finish him. In court, he revealed all he knows about the government and organization so that the public knows that both are the roots of all the country’s problems. Soon public perceives Simon and several arrested members of the organizations are just victims like them, while the conflict that the political system triggers fuels Jacobs and Johsua’s enmity. Hence people are protesting on the street for a demand to change the political system. A revolution was born.

The film ends with scenes of people's power with demands to reform the whole governmental system and disbandment of the organization. Simon cries and smiles at the same tie watching all this from his courtroom.

(Spoiler Alert)

Nathaniel Baker

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