Movie: The Wrestler
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei
Rating: ***1/2 Passion may drive a person in a way that he loses his path of journey. It tells the story of an aging professional wrestler who tries to find a life outside the wrestling ring.
The movie is about a professional wrestler Randy aka Ram Jam (Mickey Rourke) at his peak at one time and now withering away after around two decades of wrestling. He was once a star, people loved him and wrestling was his life. But with age and a heart attack, the single most important thing is snatched away from him, wrestling. It then takes us through his struggle to lead a normal life, get back with his family that is his daughter (Evan Rachel Wood), build a new relationship with his love interest that is a stripper (Marisa Tomei), take up a menial job that in a grocery store and stay away from wrestling.
The movie has various beautiful scenes which bring out the complex emotional turmoil within Randy. The film is a bold portrayal of the real world of wrestling. The harsh truths behind the matches that all of us cheer for. Their hardships and torment makes our hearts reach out to them.
This movie has the Aronofsky touches in it which makes it so wonderful. Simply loved the use of cameras from various angles changing the pace of the movie now and then. Marisa Tomei as the single mother and an aging stripper losing her charm gives a bold performance. But Mickey Rourke is the soul of the movie. He has given an outstanding performance. He has brought out so many complicated and mixed emotions of a frustrated employee, aging and helpless wrestler, lonely lover, hopeless father. Few scenes were especially brilliant like the one between Randy and his daughter where he realizes the life that he missed out on. Also in the end the scene where he looks around at the audience to find out that this is the only family left as long as he wrestles and he has lost out on everything else and has nothing to live for.
It truly is a tantalizing tale of a passionate sports person.
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