I always thought "WrestleKing" was a Loser comeback story, just like any other inspirational movie in Hollywood. However, when the film is halfway through, that blood-boiled feeling becomes mixed.
The swollen muscles and strong figure bring excitement and shouts to the audience, and behind these strengths and male hormones are helplessness and forbearance.
Life never favors a person because he is strong enough. On the contrary, for these tough guys, they not only bear more pain than others, but also face various difficulties that ordinary people cannot understand.
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"The Wrestling King" starred Mickey Rourke, who was definitely the sexiest male star of the 1980s before Mickey Rourke became the "Wrestling King".
In "Nine and a Half Weeks Love You", he is the sexy Wall Street broker, in "Angel Heart" he is the handsome and handsome private detective Harry Angel, and in "Wild Orchid" he is much more handsome Lover of gold.
However, the handsome young man took to the boxing ring.
Different from acting, the reality of punching to the flesh destroyed Mickey Rourke's handsomeness. After his nose and cheekbones were broken, he also bid farewell to his former handsomeness. Now, after the vicissitudes of life, he has become a "tough guy" in his old age.
Perhaps the saddest thing that is more sad than the twilight of the beauty is the twilight of the hero.
After watching "The Wrestling King", I think this is more like Mickey Rourke's autobiography. In the movie, he is "War Sheep" Randy Robinson.
After a period of glory, his life entered a low point. The meager income earned by his body cannot pay the rent, the confession to the stripper he likes is rejected, the relationship with his daughter has dropped to freezing point, the pain that comes on at any time makes him have to rely on painkillers to sleep, and the heart disease makes him leave the one he likes stage.
After the surgery, he left the game. The pale face and white hair lamented the sky, when it was time for a hero to twilight.
Since then, he has to accept a real world where there is no more competition, and all the cheers and shouts have become the sadness of the hero's twilight at this time.
I seem to be able to feel the soul under his body looking back at the past. However, the glory of the old days has been covered with dust, and there is only a long sigh: "It's time to go."
In the face of life, no matter how tough a hero is, he has to compromise, so he stood in front of the deli counter in the supermarket with that ridiculous hood, repeating the boring life day after day.
Although life was not as good as it was supposed to be, he still tried his best.
What moved me the most was when he walked through the promenade at the back of the supermarket to the work area, he heard cheers and cheers, and when he lifted the curtain, the cheers stopped abruptly.
There is no audience applauding him, only a group of cold and critical consumers.
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When Randy Robinson was "War Sheep", the bar's strippers treated him as a guest. Although the two were only in a business relationship, there was still a hint of ambiguity in the feeling that they were the same people in the world.
Like Randy, stripper Cassidy faced a similar dilemma. She needs to raise her son, and is ready to move to provide him with a better education.
Homeless and loveless Randy Robinson found some warmth in Cassidy.
When he was out of the game, unbearable loneliness led him to Cassidy. After the confession, Cassidy declined him.
On the stage, she was having fun, and with the helplessness of the lowly people, she pretended not to yearn for the rotten life of drunken life and death. Cassidy and Randy are such people.
The former hero was teased into a mess by reality. He was crying alone, tasting loneliness and loneliness, and he longed to love and be loved. It's a pity that no one will be waiting for him in the beginning, he's destined to be a lonely twilight hero.
When I had a grudge against Cassidy, she changed her mind.
I know it's not love, it's just kindness. Because they are all the same people, people forgotten by God.
Countless people are constantly struggling at the bottom of the world, in order to survive, for their families, they must be like shells, carrying pearls, and remain silent.
I can understand Cassidy's hesitation. If she hadn't been abandoned, how could she doubt Randy's feelings for her.
When she let go of her guard and suspicion, Randy Robinson went into battle again and became a "war sheep" again.
The double torture of body and spirit made him choose "death battle". For the hero, this seems to be the best ending. It is better to die on the stage that he once loved, than to survive in reality.
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If Randy was given another chance, would he still choose to be a "war sheep"? I believe that he will choose to be a tree that grows for the years and does not hurt anyone.
Gu Long wrote the following passage in "Passionate Swordsman Ruthless Sword":
hero? ...what is a hero? Is this the hero? The meaning of a hero is often cold! cruel! lonely! ruthless! Some people have once given a definition for a hero, that is: killing like grass, gambling like crazy, drinking like thirsty, lustful like life! Of course, this is not absolute, there is another kind of hero. But how many heroes are there in the world like Li Xunhuan? Heroes may have only one thing in common - no matter what kind of hero you want to be, it's not a good thing.
Indeed, no matter what kind of hero, it is not a good thing.
No one is born a hero, only after becoming a hero do you know the price you need to pay.
The "War Sheep" who returned to the game probably went with the determination to die. For him, the game is no longer a symbol of glory and reputation, but a resolute memory.
He is like Don Quixote, fighting the last of fate. It was despair that made him go to the game without hesitation, and it was he who repaid life with songs, and what life returned to him was endless indifference and melancholy.
He went to his "kingdom" without hesitation, and he was the only king in that "country":
A lot of people tell me...I can't wrestle anymore, I thought I could. You know, living hard... hard acting... if you overstretch yourself, you have to pay the price. In such a life...you will lose everything you love...everything that loves you, my hearing is not as good as before, I'm forgetful, and I'm not as handsome as I used to be. But I'm still standing here, I'm still the "war sheep". Over time... they'll say he's screwed, he's screwed, he's a bum, he's just getting along... You know what? In another 20 years, the only person who can tell me that I have a beginning and an end in doing things is everyone present, everyone here, I want to tell you, because you are all my family.
The speech before the game was more like Randy Robinson's epitaph, saying goodbye to the world. When the audience is still immersed in the passion he brings, this farewell is particularly inappropriate and even absurd in the cheers.
But absurdity itself is the background color of life.
After the boxing match, everyone can leave easily, only Randy Robinson can't leave. This is where his dream started and his final destination.
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