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It's a brilliant film cult film for wrestling fans although I'm not a wrestling fan you can feel the emotion in the film feel sorry for Randy the RAM or the other hand you think he's selfish but also feel for him so much he's frustrated that his daughter doesn't want to know him but he knows the reason for it but can't do anything about it shows you in wrestling everything is not black and white brilliant film watch it for many years thanks very much really good
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Brilliant film
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Great film. Thanks.
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At first glance, Darren Aronofsky's THE WRESTLER may seem like a departure for the oftentimes frenetic filmmaker, and in some ways it is. When this story of a past-his-prime performer is compared to PI, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, and THE FOUNTAIN, there is relatively little trace of psychoscientific addiction imagery, hip-hop editing, or grimly elegant peeks into dreams, nightmares, and otherworlds. Comic moments are plentiful. Aronofsky's signature close-ups of faces have been replaced with ones that force themselves into wounds inflicted for visceral spectacle. Much of the time the camera floats and bobs with an observant, almost documentary-like quietness, ethereally following the wrestler as if it were his past, and the viewer may perceive vague connections to a later, lonelier, less legitimate Rocky Balboa. But Mickey Rourke isn't the Italian Stallion--he's Randy "The Ram" Robinson, a man who has spent decades slicing himself open in choreographed fights while adoring crowds roar. Pro wrestling isn't as lucrative as it was for Randy in the 1980s, but he stays at it while working menial jobs because performing isn't just the only thing he craves--it's the only thing that, at 50, he knows how to crave. While courting his one true friend, a stripper named Cassidy (Marisa Tomei), Randy does his best to restart a relationship with the angry daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) he abandoned. But Rourke imbues the image of Randy, ready to pounce from the ropes, looking almost as unreal as the box art on action figure packaging, with an expression of pain, desperation, and joy. It's a close-up that makes two things clear. For one, Randy's charisma is inseparable from the crippling fixation that's kept him alive. For another, THE WRESTLER might be at once a simpler and more complex meditation on addiction and eternal struggle than any of Aronofsky's earlier workRead full review
The Wrestler is about Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke) who was a huge wrestling star through the 80s but is now an older wrestler who does the independent circuit, destroying is body for next to nothing to keep food on the table. The movie looks in to the troubles of a wrestler who's body is failing him so he is incapable of carrying on his love. It looks into his strained relationships with people around him because of his job and his dedication to it. Mickey Rourke is outstanding in this movie which was proved because of the Oscar nomination. People were suprised he didn't win it and so was I to be honest. You don't need to be a wrestling fan to enjoy this movie but if you are then this is a must see! 5/5! Loved it!
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