For what is a man, what has he got?
65th Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Award film “The Wrestler” has given extremely good but not perfect answers.
Born in 1950, starring Mickey Rourke was a 80′s sexy idol, If you have read the “Nine 1 / 2 Weeks” you will be amazing in his youth that handsome face, but time goes by, the handsome young aggression in the boxing game was broken nose and cheekbones, and then tortured after bad things now has become the face of vicissitudes of age.
Randy “The Ram” Robinson like a tailor-made for Mickey Rourke, and “The Wrestler” as his autobiography.
The aging and ailing professional wrestling in the 80′s hand had gone through similar with Mickey Rourke brilliant, but through the peak period, his life plummeted: sweat meager income earned enough to pay rent, to the dancers rejected courtship , the only daughter with their own break away from the heart to force their beloved wrestling games
Watched the film at the beginning you may have guessed that this is a “Loser” counterattack cliffs film, in spite of this, it still can give you an unprecedented shock. Throughout the entire piece of filming documentary approach reminds me of “Bigger, Stronger, Faster”, in that the Department of Health about the abuse of steroids in the documentary, bodybuilding champion weightlifter, professional wrestler 11 debut, let us see those expansion burly build muscle and hard behind the helplessness and. Iron Man is almost non-existent, a tough guy is also unknown sad, they will one day hiding in a corner quietly weeping life —- never one aspect because of your special talents to reduce the suffering it provides and even to the tough guy for other people to assume more than the pain seems to have always been well deserved.
Then we see Randy continue to accumulate in the day-to-day suffering in another case. Than “aged beauty” more terrible things are “aged hero.” Achilles of Troy died in the battlefield became a legend, and Odysseus and Agamemnon are not so lucky, all the heroes are admirers can not accept the cruel fact that old hero. But Randy itself must accept all this, because he can not easily of life to say “no”, in the face of life, and then powerful wrestler have to make compromises.
Randy bring ridiculous plastic hood, in the study of MAO film secretly behind closed doors like supermarket managers to seek the hands of a manual labor to sell cooked food. Life has always been unsatisfactory, but in no way As for the “The Ram” can not survive into the point, of course, all this positive market than wrestling scenery: with “Robin” badges of Randy had countless times to wear After Taiwan’s promenade to meet those cheering voices, but this time he set off curtain, the applause has halted – to replace a group of fanatical audience cold choosy shoppers.
Reality and wrestling field gap for the time being can endure, but the ability to deal with hard feelings apparently infinite zoom, young scenery, these are “Not a problem”, but now it is lethal. Left hand wrestling wrestling market reality soon teased a mess, “The Ram” can `t handle this, he tears alone enjoy the solitude, he was looking forward to love and be loved, but he will engage in all after hit, and no one to give him the opportunity to grasp the well-being.
The wrestling ground of “Don Quixote”, eager to do with the fate of the windmill final battle that he is full of great despair, faith, this conviction of life and death enough to make him proud. He dropped all fetters, even though it has been nothing to throw away, and he knew that the world can have one last place left him, and that is the four corners of the market square, where there are fanatical spectators and tough opponent, There are dreams and youth, where his life-long blood, where is his home.
Relentless refusal of the dancers have their own senses, and she begged the night while driving to their own back, but all too late “The Ram” can no longer endure life’s ups and downs, can no longer put up with a moment of hope after endless disappointment They can no longer endure the loss of their own to become a passionate walking corpses, although the starting point can not choose life, but can choose the end of life, but this option will not be able to look back once!
This is a man can do for their own final thing.
Randy wholeheartedly boarded the countless times he had boarded the battlefield, where he stood 20 years ago opponent, he took the microphone to the world talk to him for many years buried in the bottom of my heart the words:
Many people told me that I can no longer be wrestling
I originally thought they could
You know,
Hard alive
Hard performance
If you overdraft too physical, you have to pay the price
In this life you will lose all loved all the love you all
I now hearing has been watered down, I will forgetful, I also no longer as cool
However, I am still standing here, I still was “a sledgehammer”
Over time they will say that he finished, he finished, he was, he muddling along
You know what? Another 20 years
The only way to tell me that I am a person of the beginnings and ends
Is the presence of Members
All the people here
I would like to inform you because you are my family
Randy and old opponent “SHOW” is like a bucket of encaged animals, bloodthirsty audience nurtured wrestling field cruel, erotic desire to create a strip of the dancers, the crowd of spectators will not be crazy for their own self-examination, and Randy must be completed at all of this “show”, he stroked an increasingly weak heart, the eyes looked at the direction of the dancers appeared, but loved the dancers had left, that there is light at this time has been empty place
Randy knew their real market is wrestling, everyone can easily leave, but he is destined never stop here.
He climbed inside the ropes, stands high in everybody’s head, “The Ram” will be the last time using their own “sledgehammer crushing pressure“, which will instantly become a hit eternal
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