The human condition in The Wrestler
It is always difficult to innovate in story of fight or boxing. Either the hero is a young first to grow in contact with a veteran coach, or he is an old story on the decline, which seeks to restore its reputation. The Ram (Rourke) is part of the second category. Icon of kids and adults in the 1980s, the wrestler gold suit gave meaning to their existence. To get there, he resumed training and fighting despite a failing heart, at the same time wishing to be closer to his daughter (Evan Rachel Wood). In its daily battle, it can nevertheless count on Cassidy (Marisa Tomei), a stripper who is eager to change the skin.
Rating: 4/5
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Mark Margolis, Todd Barry, Wass Stevens, Judah Friedlander, Ernest Miller, Dylan Summers, Tommy Farra
Directed By: Darren Aronofsky
For many moviegoers, the filmmaker Darren Aronosky will be the next Stanley Kubrick. The director is known for the perfection of its plans and its rigorous management of actors. Since his first opus “Pi” in black and white, the comparisons between the two men burst and it is no coincidence. The shock came in 2000 with the release of the masterpiece in power “Requiem for a Dream,” probably one of the best films of the decade. The summit unmatched in the American director has created huge expectations that the next book could only disappoint. After waiting six years of hell, “The Fountain” has been wrongly vilified when he was a magnificent pensum on love and the passage of time.
To recover from this faux pas that do not really, anyone would have been in the opposite direction. Unlike previous tests, “The Wrestler” away from the exercises in style, mounting apocalyptic licked and plans which have been the trademark of Aronosky. Treatment rather recalls the naturalistic Dogma and the Dardenne brothers’ film, with the omnipresence of the grain and this camera scrapie which sticks to the sweat of the protagonist. Realism is all the time, overwhelming the stomach during difficult sequence where blood and pain are mixed.
Initially, the story does not break anything. Is the return to the life of the phoenix, a love romance between two left-to-accounts and a trip in time where a man learns to be a father later on. This dotted pattern of ups and downs in the final upsetting but expected benefits, however, a scenario where intelligent, funny and surprising sequences pathos linger in this former wrestler. This impressive figure – and the dancer – represents dependence and deprivation so dear to the director. This is the sacrifice of present to past to revive swapped, a suicide small fire to approach a serenity that is almost impossible to achieve.
The myth of normalcy born wrestlers, often sad and bitter, which creates a thirst for recognition, efforts invaluable for a better life. These sacrifices are the promises to have a brighter future or dreams earlier condemning or saving this. A fascinating insight into the human condition of a merciless world with two wonderful actors and a veteran director who is not afraid to touch on all genres.
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