The Wrestler
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 11:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanHaving accidentally borrowed1 ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
colonel_maxim’s copy of The Wrestler some months ago, we watched it last night at long last.
It’s a good movie, though more of a docu-drama than anything else. For some reason, we thought it was going to be a take on life in something like the ‘big leagues’ of WWE or some such, the so-called ‘sports entertainment’ that increasingly fills Sky’s spare broadcasting capacity.
Well, we were wrong. Micky Rourke plays an aging wrestler who is about 20 years past his best as a wrestling pro, but who knows no other life. He has no real friends, little money, no prospects and is estranged from his daughter. The man is pretty much a complete loser. Despite that, it’s hard not to like the character because of his general optimism, even for small out comes and that carries the film.
It’s well-worth a watch, but it’s not a barrel of laughs. The final scene will leave you wondering…
1By which I mean it got left behind at The Carapthia after one of his flying visits from foreign parts.
colonel_maxim’s copy of The Wrestler some months ago, we watched it last night at long last.It’s a good movie, though more of a docu-drama than anything else. For some reason, we thought it was going to be a take on life in something like the ‘big leagues’ of WWE or some such, the so-called ‘sports entertainment’ that increasingly fills Sky’s spare broadcasting capacity.
Well, we were wrong. Micky Rourke plays an aging wrestler who is about 20 years past his best as a wrestling pro, but who knows no other life. He has no real friends, little money, no prospects and is estranged from his daughter. The man is pretty much a complete loser. Despite that, it’s hard not to like the character because of his general optimism, even for small out comes and that carries the film.
It’s well-worth a watch, but it’s not a barrel of laughs. The final scene will leave you wondering…
1By which I mean it got left behind at The Carapthia after one of his flying visits from foreign parts.