Although many friends around me have complimented "The Wrestler", if it weren't for the boring afternoon after a busy day the day before yesterday, I might not have gone to watch this movie. I'm a person who has a physical aversion to muscle-and-blood fight movies. To put it bluntly, fighting is watching the same kind of fighting, so I always feel that the people on and off the stage in this sport are carrying out a kind of anti-human behavior.
But there are still some fight movies that I like, because they are not making tough guys, they are destroying tough guys. After watching this kind of movie, you will feel that the people who are engaged 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, such as Andy Lau's "A Hu", although in the eyes of many friends, it is a very hypocritical "bad movie", but I must say that it is the most lethal I have ever seen. The fight movie that moved me.
Yes, I don't believe there are any tough guys in this world.
So, The Wrestler is my kind of movie.
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's very strange, the first thing I thought of after watching "The Wrestler" was Xu Anhua's "Day and Night in Tianshui Wai". It sounds like two movies that can't be beat by eight poles, but the two have similarities in the way of storytelling and temperament, that is, they both use a line drawing method to record one's life trajectory, there is no exaggeration. Rendering and description, the camera follows the characters, and the characters follow fate, like a trickle slowly advancing, letting it flow freely on the calm and full of potholes. "Tin Shui Wai" has no drama, and "The Wrestler" performed the drama in the same way, which is even more admirable and admirable.
The characters presented in this way of telling are hard to imagine lifeless. You will feel that every character in "The Wrestler" is real, they have no legend, no heroism, they are all living people like you and me.
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"The Wrestler" is a painful movie, but the pain of "The Wrestler" comes from the author's gentle but loving touch to life that will make you suddenly discover or realize our ferocity as human beings , helpless, and innocent.
The film made the audience's heart soften from the very beginning. Those men who seemed to be deadly and vicious on the stage were like a bunch of naughty and cute children off the stage. Can only make the audience go crazy, "You will finally throw me offstage", "Knock my head with a chair", "Can you do it?" Treat you to dinner." Then they took to the stage, battling bloody flesh to the wild screams of the audience.
Randy is always alone, and the man who looks like he can destroy everything shrinks and spends nights in the car because he can't pay the rent; after his heart surgery, he runs alone in the winter woods suddenly. Squatting helplessly on the ground, there is no one around; he finds a child to play video games, but the child leaves him because the game is "too old"... The more sad thing about this lonely person is that you don't Knowing what he really wants, is it the future? Is it happiness? Neither seems to be.
Humans are naturally gregarious animals. There is no one in this world who is not afraid of loneliness. Those who so-called "enjoy loneliness" must have deep wounds behind them. Randy isn't a slobber, he's outspoken about his feelings, he admits he's lonely, and he fights loneliness unabashedly. There are many passages in the film that make it hard to continue, because the sad atmosphere that pervades the film does not give you a sense of optimism.
Randy came close to capturing happiness, but thinking about that "near" is a choking thing, because you never know how much that "near" is.
At the end of the film, Randy staggers up to the heights of the ring, his face takes on a strange crying and laughing expression amid the cheers, and once again, and for the last time, completes the "sledgehammer smash".
Fate destroyed the sledgehammer, but at that moment, I felt like we destroyed the sledgehammer ourselves.
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There is a character in the film that I like very much, that is, the showgirl named Cassidy.
There is a woman in every fight movie, and they usually act as the man's spiritual sustenance. But Cassidy is different, she is a very layered woman, and unlike Randy, she has a son she loves, she knows what she wants, so she commands herself not to waste on anything inaction time. This woman has one of the most moving words 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 worthy of her support, otherwise she Not going crazy for Randy's deliberate teasing. When she finally broke through the bottom line of self-restraint and came to Randy cheekily, she thought that her fresh self would make Randy look back, but she didn't know that Randy had decided to destroy herself.
There is a scene in the film where Cassidy decides to accompany Randy to help her daughter buy clothes, and when she appears in front of Randy that morning without makeup, Randy can't help but say, "You look So clean." She didn't seem to understand at the time and asked, "Clean?"
Yes, this woman was really clean, even though she was a showgirl.
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I believe that great artists are all lonely, and this loneliness and sadness come from their hearts, a hidden place that cannot be touched by prosperity and vanity. If you know the experience of Mickey Rourke, you will know why this man gave such a great performance He was stubborn. When he found out that he could perform, he immediately went to Hollywood with four hundred dollars he borrowed. He was infatuated. When his second marriage hit the rocks, he actually waited ten years until now— - How many men in the world of show business today can do this?
Mickey Rourke didn't win the Best Actor Oscar, but he was the Best Actor for life.
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