I think a good movie is to let the audience see the shadow of their own life, their own shadow, and then transcend reality and sublimate reality.
The protagonist is an older wrestler, overstretched and unsustainable. Finally, after a difficult match, he has a heart problem. The doctor said, you can't wrestle any more. He felt lonely and miserable, so he tried to give up wrestling and get back everything, love and family, that he had neglected and abandoned during the years he devoted himself to wrestling. But life is not so easy. She likes to joke with human beings. It seems that love is about to be born. Drunk and missed the promised meeting with her daughter, which once again broke her heart. Life is not that easy, it's not that you can save it if you want, and you can cheer up if you want to cheer up. So, he went back to the wrestling arena and finished wrestling one last time with his life.
I'm thinking, is it worth it, can't I save my daughter, can't save my girlfriend, life is not so easy, but isn't it shameful to give up? On the protagonist's face, I saw loneliness, maybe he brought it on himself, because he devoted himself to the wrestling career, he neglected his family, he ruined his body and appearance, his career declined, the industry slumped, he went from a The superstar has become a miserable creature. So he wants to give up wrestling, the only career he really loves, to pursue other happiness, is it feasible? Maybe yes, maybe no, man is not as omniscient, omnipotent and great as we imagine, he is weak, lacks wisdom, he is emotional, and has a glass heart. Practical idealism. He had only one thought, that life was so rotten that there was no hope. At this time, the only thing he could think of was wrestling, something that gave him dignity, a sense of control and joy.
Mickey Rourke's performance is very tense. He is almost polite and gentle throughout the film, just like an injured puppy. He doesn't complain and suffer so much. He just accepts the reality and tries to be optimistic. Face, because he is too old and has suffered too much pain, what else can he do. However, when he was scratched by a supermarket cutting machine, repeatedly tortured by an old lady and mashed potatoes, and worst of all, when he was recognized by a wrestling fan and saw himself embarrassed at the moment when he was a salesperson, he was the only one. Once really angry, he let the blood of his fingers flow wantonly, and smeared his face fiercely, kicked over the things on the shelves that he saw along the way, and smashed them, as if resisting something, venting something with pain. He finally returned to the stage of wrestling.
Life is helpless, maybe it used to be brilliant, but when you are lonely, no one will pay attention to you, and people will feel infinite loneliness. What is the way out of this situation, the answer this film gives us is to grasp the meaning of our own life. The protagonist also tried to find the meaning of life again through love and family, but failed, so he thought of wrestling again, the only thing he thought was meaningful.
Most people's lives are imperfect or even failed. Everyone has his own shortcomings and flaws. People cannot achieve many dreams. On the contrary, they will lose a lot of things that they are powerless to strive for. What can we do in this lonely and sad moment, lamenting ourselves for all that is unattainable, self-exile because of our incompetence, or desperate to realize our possible ideals. Maybe that's what this movie wants us to think about.
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