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The Wrestler
Movies are always more enjoyable when they exceed our expectations
So i caught The Wrestler, with not too much in mind and it really left me smiling to myself at the end.
To put in plainly. It was simple. Simply Enjoyable.
Micky Rourke plays Randy ” Ram ” Robinson in the heydays of his wrestling career. A former icon in the ring, the first image shows him in a deteriorated state after a match, and then him going back to his trailer parkand living like a bum. He’s well respected by many up and coming wrestlers and has affections for a MILF like stripper, wants to get closer to his enstranged lesbian daughter after a heart attack but soon finds out that his only love and family is the people who know him as ” Ram Jam Robinson “.
Ram’s a good natured person who now has to resort to working at a butcher just to get by, to pay for his drugs that keep him sane and out of pain.
Some scenes to remember are that of him trying to influence kids to play nintendo wrestling games of 8-bit quality. Him putting himself into a hardcore match just to please the peeps and of course his falling into his own vices just when everything seemed to be working out for him.
To me that’s life as plain as it can get, we are always searching for things we always wanted and take them for granted once we have them in our grasp.
The storyline was simple enough, and i guess when you’ve watched too many unexpected twists and turns and really bad storytelling in part of other movies, simplicity in a film provides you with some much needed relief and satisfaction.
Ram knows his place, and he tries hard enough to get what he pleases but to no avail, and the fact that he was willing to risk his life for just one more exclamation in his career really moved me more than any war drama or death scene in Little Nonya recently.
It wasn’t confusing at all, and u knew what was coming, yet that was just what made the film strong in i guess , an obvious and expected, yet also logical sense. Add some cool AC/DC, Springsteen and Guns ” N ” Roses tracks to the mix and you really have a movie that makes Slumdog Millionaire really look like something that is really overrated.
Ram Jam.
but i still haven’t found what i’m looking for
-Soapfat
Add comment February 20, 2009
