The 65th Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Award film "The Wrestler" gave an imperfect but wonderful answer to this.
The starring actor Mickey Rourke, born in 1956, was once a sexy idol in the 80s. If you watch "Nine 1/2 Weeks", you will be amazed at his handsome face when he was young, but as time goes by, the young handsome guy is in the boxing ring. His nose and cheekbones were smashed, and he has become an old man with a face of vicissitudes after tortured by unhelpful things.
Randy "The Ram" Robinson seems to be tailored for Mickey Rourke, and "The Wrestler" is like his autobiography.
This aging and frail professional wrestler once experienced similar glory to Mickey Rourke in the 1980s, but after his peak, his life plummeted: his meager income from blood and sweat was not enough to pay the rent, and his courtship was refused. The only daughter broke with herself, and her heart disease forced herself to stay away from the wrestling ground of her beloved.
You might have guessed that this is a "Loser" movie that fought back, but it still works. Bring you unprecedented shock. The documentary shooting techniques throughout the film reminded me of "Bigger, Stronger, Faster". In that documentary about bodybuilders' abuse of steroid drugs, bodybuilding champions, weightlifters, and professional wrestlers appeared one by one, let us see The hardships and forbearance behind those swollen muscles and sturdy figure. Iron man is almost non-existent, tough guys also have unknown sadness, they will also hide in a corner and cry silently one day-life will never be reduced by your special talents because of the pain it provides. , Even for tough guys, it always seems right to take more pain than others.
Then we saw Randy exhausted in the painful center that was accumulating day after day. The more terrifying thing than "beauty twilight" is "hero twilight". Achilles died on the battlefield of Troy and has since become a legend, but Odysseus and Agamemnon are not so lucky. All admirers of heroes cannot accept the cruel fact that heroes are aging. But Randy himself must accept all this, because he can't easily say "no" to life, facing life, no matter how powerful wrestlers must make compromises.
Randy put on the ridiculous plastic hood, and got a job selling cooked food under the supermarket manager who likes to close the door and secretly study porn. Life is always unsatisfactory, but it will never make "The Ram" fall to the point where it cannot survive. Of course, all this is definitely not better than the scenery on the wrestling field: Randy with the "Robin" badge has worn it countless times. Go across the backstage promenade to greet the cheers, but this time when he lifted the curtains, the cheers stopped abruptly-it was a group of cold picky shoppers who replaced the fanatical audience.
The gap between reality and the wrestling field can be tolerated for the time being, but the lack of emotional capacity is obviously magnified infinitely. When young and beautiful, these are "Not a problem", but now they are deadly enough. The wrestler who left the wrestling ring was quickly teased by reality. "The Ram" can`t handle this. He shed tears and tasted loneliness alone. He longed to love and be loved, but when he did everything After the smash, no one gave him another chance to grasp happiness.
The "Don Quixote" in this wrestling arena eagerly wants to fight the windmill of fate for the last time. Despair fills him with incomparable faith, which is enough to make him look down on life and death. He left all his fetters, although in fact there was nothing left to discard, he knew that there was one last place in the world that could be left for him, that is, the four-corner field, which is several feet square, where there are fanatical spectators and tough opponents. There are dreams and youth there, where his life's blood has been poured out, and there is his home.
The dancer who had ruthlessly rejected her awakened. She drove all night and begged herself to go back, but all this came too late... "The Ram" could no longer bear the ups and downs of life, and could no longer bear the endless disappointment after a moment of hope. Can no longer bear to become a zombie who has lost his passion. Although he cannot choose the beginning of his life, he can choose the end of his life, and once this choice is made, he cannot look back!
This is the last thing a man can do for himself.
Randy unhesitatingly boarded the battlefield where he had boarded countless times. There stood his opponent 20 years ago. He took the microphone and confided to everyone the words he had buried in his heart for many years:
Many people told me that... I can no longer wrestling
I thought he may of
you know,
hard living ???
hard show ???
If you are overly overdraft physical, you have to pay
in this life, you will lose the ??? · · · love everything you love everything
I'm hearing the past, and I will forget, I also no longer as cool
but I'm still standing here, I was that "sledgehammer"
over time · ·They will say that he is finished, he is finished, he is useless, he has a good time...
Do you know? Again 20 years
the only way to tell me that I'm doing things the loose ends
is the presence of you
all the people here
I would like to inform you because you are my family
The "show" between Randy and his old opponent is like a battle between trapped beasts. The bloodthirsty of the audience nurtures the cruelty of the wrestling arena, and the desire for eroticism creates stripper dancers. The spectators in the audience will not reflect on their own madness, and Randy He must finish this "show" at all costs. He stroked his increasingly weakened heart and looked at the direction where the dancing girl appeared in his eyes, but the beloved dancing girl had already left, and the bright place was now empty... ···
Randy knew that he was the only one who truly belonged to the wrestling ring and everyone could leave easily, but he was destined to stop here forever.
He climbed onto the cable in the field and stood high above everyone's heads. "The Ram" will use his "sledgehammer to crush" for the last time, and this blow will make an instant eternal...
What is a man, what has he got? It’s
not a tall figure, it’s not bright clothes, it’s not a mountain of wealth, it’s not a domineering party who bullies others... Sinking, you can be driven to despair by fate, but can you use the "sledgehammer to crush" at the last moment of your life?
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