The Wrestler is a modern-day version of old-school boxing movies and revolves around Randy The Ram Robinson, a heap of HGH-muscles and long tresses bleached to suit his own sport that’s also his occupation. However, a professional wrestler needs to be a costumed character in the real world and also must feel his real pains outside the wrestling ring. Randy The Ram does that with ease though a combined effect of the disappointments and the aching joints of these brooding, broken men (Rourke and The Ram) pin you to the seat in the most palpable way possible.
The storyline is entirely based on a man fading into obscurity every passing year and on a hunt for a human connection, just like it was in Rocky; that makes The Wrestler equipped with all the right buttons that control the urges to seek redemption and fight back. Old-fashioned yet soulful; with the participation of a beef-faced Rourke and backstage wrestling schemes, blood, snot and sweat, it’s been quite sometime that we faced anything this real and raw.
But still, somehow, The Ram seems a fake in comparison with Rourke- the real King of the ring. However, we need to wait and see whom the Academy Award makes the winner in the best actor race
The storyline is entirely based on a man fading into obscurity every passing year and on a hunt for a human connection, just like it was in Rocky; that makes The Wrestler equipped with all the right buttons that control the urges to seek redemption and fight back. Old-fashioned yet soulful; with the participation of a beef-faced Rourke and backstage wrestling schemes, blood, snot and sweat, it’s been quite sometime that we faced anything this real and raw.
But still, somehow, The Ram seems a fake in comparison with Rourke- the real King of the ring. However, we need to wait and see whom the Academy Award makes the winner in the best actor race
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