Passing through the dark and messy cargo aisle, the deafening cheers struck again like an illusion. Randy, the wrestler standing against the light, took a deep breath. Lifting the curtain, what greeted him was not the wrestling ring under the spotlight. This shot covers pretty much everything.
There are two other pictures that impressed me deeply. At the beginning of the chapter, Randy dragged his suitcase out of the training hall after signing autographs for the young man, and the camera slowly lifted, giving the illusion that the movie was about to end. The other is that Randy, who had just been discharged from the hospital, came to the pharmacy, got out of the car, and the camera looked down from a distance, as if he didn't know where he was for a moment.
The nostalgia for the stripper Cassidy, and the guilt for the daughter who is like a stranger, these two episodes are somewhat unconventional. And the handling of the changes before and after the daughter's feelings seems a bit abrupt and hastily. But it was the categorical refusal given by the only two remaining people in Randy's life that pushed him back into the world where there was nothing human. His death belongs only there.
The movie ends before Randy touches the ground, and the climax isn't over. Thinking of the back-and-forth shooting of the previous paragraphs, it seems to tell us that he is facing the world with his back. And the way it ends seems to imply that the angle of the movie is completely first-person. It is a very wise choice to discard all redundancy and afterwords.
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