Although many of my friends around me have spoken highly of "Wrestler", if it weren't for the boring afternoon after the busy day before yesterday, I might still not go to the movie. I have a physical resistance to that kind of muscle and plasma fight movie. To put it bluntly, fighting is to watch the fight of the same kind, so I have always felt that people on stage and off stage in this sport are all engaging in anti-human behavior.
However, there are still some fighting movies that I like, because he is not creating tough guys, but destroying tough guys. After watching this kind of film, you will feel that the people who engage in this sport are actually the same as ordinary people. They are not at all. Cool, even more delicate and soft than ordinary people’s hearts. For example, Andy Lau's "A Hu" back then, although in the eyes of many friends, it was a very hypocritical "bad movie", but I must say that it was the most fascinating movie I have ever seen. I am touched by the fight movie.
Yes, I don't believe there are tough guys in this world.
So, "Wrestler" is the kind of movie I like.
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is strange that the first thing I thought of after watching "Wrestler" was Xu Anhua's "Day and Night in Tianshuiwei". It sounds like two movies that can't be played by eight poles, but the two have similarities in the way of storytelling and temperament, that is, they use a kind of line drawing method to record the life track of one, and there is no exaggeration. Rendering and describing, the camera follows the character, and the character follows the fate, like a trickle slowly moving in, allowing it to flow freely on the calm and full of pits and pits. "Tian Shui Wai" has no drama, "Wrestler" uses the same way to perform drama, which is even more admirable and admired.
It is difficult for the characters presented in this way of narration to have no vitality. You will feel that every character in "Wrestler" is real. They have no legend or heroism. They are all living people like you and me.
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"Wrestler" is a painful movie, but the pain of "Wrestler" comes from the author's gentle but loving touch of life. This touch will make you suddenly discover or realize our cruelty as human beings. , Helpless, and innocent.
The film made the audience feel soft from the beginning. Those men who seemed to be deadly and evil on stage were like a group of naughty and cute children under the stage. They talked about their moves on stage. In order to make the audience crazy, "You are going to throw me off the stage at last", "Knock me on the head with a chair", "Can you do it?" "Don't worry, it's okay"... The last punch, "It's over." I invite you to dinner." Then they came to the stage, fighting to a bloody beast in the audience's wild shouts.
Randy has always been lonely. This man who seems to be able to destroy everything will shrink and spend a night in the car because he can’t pay the rent; after he had a heart operation, he suddenly runs in the winter grove by himself. He squatted weakly on the ground and there was no one around; he was looking for children to play video games, but the children left him because the game was "too old"... What makes this lonely person even more sad is that you don’t Do you know what he wants, the future? Is it happiness? It seems neither.
Humans are natural social animals. No one in this world is not afraid of loneliness. Those who "enjoy loneliness" must have deep wounds behind them. Randy is not a guy who pretends to be indifferent. He is blunt about his feelings. He admits that he is alone and confronts loneliness unabashedly. There are many passages in the film that make it unbearable to continue, because the atmosphere of sadness in the film can't give you a premonition of optimism.
Randy almost caught happiness, but thinking about this "nearly" is something that can suffocate people, because you never know what that "a little bit" is.
At the end of the film, Randy staggered up to the height of the ring, and his face showed a strange expression of crying and laughing amidst the cheers. Once again and for the last time, he completed the "Sledgehammer Smash".
Fate destroyed the sledgehammer, but at that moment, I felt that we destroyed the sledgehammer by ourselves.
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There is a character in the film that I like very much, that is, the showgirl named Casey.
There is a woman in every fight movie, and they usually act as the spiritual sustenance of this man. But Casey is different. She is a very hierarchical woman. Unlike Randy, she has a beloved son. She knows what she wants, so she orders herself not to waste anything on inaction. time. This woman has a sentence that touches me the most in the film, "Do you think I'm really a showgirl? I'm a mother!"
Randy loves her, and she also knows that Randy is a man she can rely on, otherwise she Not going crazy because of Randy's deliberate teasing. When she finally broke through the bottom line of self-restraint and came to Randy brazenly, she thought that her vividness would make Randy look back, but she didn't know that Randy had decided to destroy herself.
There is a passage in the film, Casey decides to accompany Randy to help her daughter buy clothes. She appeared in front of Randy that morning without powder, so beautiful, Randy couldn’t help saying, "You look It's really clean." She didn't seem to understand at the time, and she asked, "Clean?"
Yes, this woman is really clean, even if she is a showgirl.
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I believe that great artists are lonely. This sense of loneliness and sorrow comes from their hearts. It is a hidden place that cannot be touched by prosperity and vanity. If you understand the experience of Mickey Locke, you know why this man gave such a great performance. He was rebellious, loved boxing since he was a child, challenged the boxing champion and suffered heavy losses, and even gave up many temptations to return to boxing when his acting career was in full swing. Taiwan; he was stubborn. When he found out that he could perform, he immediately went to Hollywood alone with the borrowed four hundred dollars; he was infatuated. After his second marriage hit the rocks, he actually waited for ten years until now— -How many men in the world of performing arts today can do this?
Mickey Rock did not win the Oscar actor, but he is already the actor of life.
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