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The Wrestler [Blu-ray]
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Genre | Action & Adventure, Performing Arts |
Format | Blu-ray, Multiple Formats, AC-3, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed |
Contributor | Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Mickey Rourke, Darren Aronofsky |
Language | English, Spanish |
Runtime | 1 hour and 49 minutes |
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Mickey Rourke gives the performance of a lifetime as pro wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson, a former superstar now paying the price for twenty years of grueling punishment in and out of the ring. But he's about to risk everything to prove he has one more match left in him: a re-staging of his famous Madison Square Garden bout against "The Ayatollah." Darren Aronofsky directs a powerful cast in this action-packed saga of guts, glory and gritty determination that is "as irresistible as a headlock" (New York Post ).
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The mystery of Mickey Rourke's career comes to a grungy apotheosis in The Wrestler the much-battered actor's triumphant return to the top rope. He plays Randy "The Ram" Robinson, a heavily scarred and medicated battler who's twenty years past his best moment in the ring. But he still schleps to every second-rate fight card he can get to, stringing out the paychecks (more likely a fistful of cash) and nursing what's left of his pride. His attempts to adjust to a more normal kind of life form the most absorbing sections in the movie, whether it's flirting with a stripper (Marisa Tomei is in good form, in every sense), establishing a bond with his understandably angry daughter (Evan Rachel Wood), or working behind the deli counter at a nondescript megastore. Rourke is commanding in the role; he obviously spent hours in the gym and the tanning salon, and his ease with the semi-documentary style adopted by director Darren Aronofsky allows him to naturalistically interact with the colorful real-life wrestlers who crowd the movie's ultra-believable locations. All of which helps distract from the film's overall adherence to ancient formula. You might find yourself waiting for the scene where the risk-taking Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream) pulls the switch and reveals his true motives for pursuing this otherwise sentimental story, but there's no switch. The Wrestler is an old-fashioned hoke machine, given grit by an actor who doesn't seem to be so much performing the role of ravaged survivor as embodying it. --Robert Horton
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Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 3.84 ounces
- Item model number : Relay time: 109min; 2 Videos
- Director : Darren Aronofsky
- Media Format : Blu-ray, Multiple Formats, AC-3, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed
- Run time : 1 hour and 49 minutes
- Release date : September 23, 2014
- Actors : Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood
- Dubbed: : Spanish
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish
- Studio : Fox Searchlight
- ASIN : B001TOD9VI
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #25,144 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #20 in Performing Arts (Movies & TV)
- #48 in Sports (Movies & TV)
- #2,329 in Drama Blu-ray Discs
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He is simply a visual genius, with each shot carefully planned out and calculated thoroughly so it fits in with the bigger picture of the film.
When I first saw this film, I was at first a little disappointed. All the camera shots were handheld and a little shaky.
I later realized the genius behind this. At first I thought he was shooting this way out of necessity, probably due to the film's low budget of $6 million. I then realized that he made the extremely visual Requiem for a Dream for only $4 million which contained hardly any (if any at all) handheld shots.
In this film he employs a documentary type of shooting. He doesn't just show us the characters - he makes us follow them around. Handheld shots usually take me out of a film because it makes me realize that there is someone there holding a camera. Not in this case. No. This time it adds to the experience and makes it seem like we are following real people throughout their grind through each day, while trying to dodge life's nasty curveballs - sometimes they strike out.
Randy "The Ram" Johnson is a middle-aged wrestler stuck in the independent circle, making around $100 a night and then blowing it on steroids, tanning salons and gym memberships -- all so he can keep wrestling and make another $100 so he can do it all over again while visiting the strip club to see a middle-aged stripper (Marisa Tomei) who he's falling for.
An opportunity to relive his glory days from the 80's pop up in which he would get to fight his arch-rival, The Ayatollah, in a rematch to a fight they had 20 years earlier. He accepts the challenge.
One night after an independent wrestling match, all the abuse and drugs his body has taken over the years comes to a head and he has a heart attack. He's told that if he ever wrestles again that he would most likely die. That's when he tries to clean is life up and patch up his relationship with his daughter who he barely knows who hates his guts while also trying to win over Marisa's character.
Another thing that impressed me was that this was the first full-length script from writer Robert Seigel, a former writer and editor of the satirical news network The Onion. The fact that a satirical writer was able to write a film with so much heart and such complicated characters blew me away.
The characters are all so believable and they are what make this film so powerful. That isn't Mickey Rourke on screen. No. It's trailer park resident Average Joe who has made many mistakes throughout his life who just wants a second chance to make things right.
Only when he continues to fail does he realize that he can only do the one thing he knows how to do, and how to do well. Wrestling. Even if it means he dies.
Damn.
What a movie.
This is a tough movie to review for me. I saw it last night, and I'm still kind of digesting it. Maybe I should wait til I've seen it again before reviewing it, but what the hell, I'll write up my thoughts on the movie now, and see how they change with time.
Randy 'The Ram' Robinson was at the top of the wrestling world (we learn this during the opening credits), 20 years later, he is broke and wrestling at YMCA's and anywhere else they'll have him. It's a movie about a man that can't let go of his past, a man who is always one match away from regaining his former glory, a man who has ****ed up everything he's ever had....because wrestling is all he knows. He's only truly comfortable in the ring, and the movie is as much about his ring persona as it is about him trying find something in the real world to latch onto.
Randy is a regular at a strip joint where he befriends a stripper named Cassidy (Marisa Tomei), and after suffering a setback after a match, she urges him to reconnect with his estranged daughter Stephanie (Evan Rachel Wood). Randy's a good guy at heart, and as the film progresses, I really felt bad for the guy as you watch him try so hard to do the right thing, yet constantly **** it up....whether it is his relationship with his daughter, or attempting to turn his "stripper/client" relationship into something more.
Like I pointed out earlier, the movie is split fairly evenly between his wrestling life and his home life. Besides his daughter and the stripper, Randy is trying to make it with a normal job and some of the movie's funniest scenes come out of this. On the wrestling side, Randy is offered a dream gig; a rematch of his greatest match from his glory days. Randy's convinced that this is the shot he needs to make it back into the limelight, but what is he willing to sacrifice to fulfill that dream?
Overall, the movie is just fantastic. It's brutally honest and violent and emotional and almost feels like a documentary. All actors are pitch perfect in their rolls. This isn't a movie for only wrestling fans, so please don't let that stop you from seeing it. If you are anything like me, I have a feeling you'll be engrossed by the end of the movie. Which brings me to my only real gripe.....the ending. When the movie ended I felt jipped. I was angry that something I was enjoying so much would end like that. I was also a bit confused (mostly because it was so unexpected). Given time to think about it, I can appreciate the ending a bit more and I might even be leaning towards loving it. I am also fairly certain I understand what happened now(but I won't discuss that in a review). Also, I feel like Bruce Springsteen's song at the end IS part of the movie....it's not just a filler song to play over the credits, it just sums everything perfectly.
The movie is called The Wrestler... and it's pretty damn good.
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Gran film con una colonna sonora anni 80 fantastica
Rourke plays Randy "the Ram" Robinson, a former super-star of wrestling (he even had his own action figure), who has found himself down on his luck, estranged from his daughter, and barely getting by appearing in extremely violent showcase bouts for his die hard fans in school gymnasiums and exhibition centres, which barely make him enough money to survive on. Randy is alone, his body breaking down from years of abuse through wrestling, painkillers and prescription drugs, living a somewhat miserable existence in his trailer park home. His one ray of hope is his budding relationship with Cassidy (a great supporting role from Marisa Tomei), a stripper at a local bar who Randy regularly visits, and whilst he has a thing for her, it is obvious from the outset that she also sees him as more than just another customer. When Randy suffers a heart attack after a particularly vicious match, it serves as his wake up call, and he attempts to get his life back on track, even attempting to rebuild the burnt bridges with his estranged daughter Stephanie (Evan Rachel Wood). However, even though it may prove fatal, the pull of the ring is to strong for Randy.
In spite of how it may appear, this is not a tale of redemption, this is simply the tale of one man doing the only thing he knows how to do, and damn the consequences, rather like the One Trick Pony that Springsteen sings about in the films closing credits. Randy has messed up his life, and in spite of his best intentions, he simply cannot set things right. As Randy, Rourke gives what must rate as a career best performance as the broken down man who's every regret and mistake is etched on his face and his larger than life physique. That Rourke makes us feel for this man is a testament to his brilliantly convincing and totally authentic performance (when he wrestles, he really wrestles). Ably supported by Evan Rachel Wood as the daughter who hates her father for putting his career first, and see's his current situation as just punishment for his past misdeeds, the true supporting plaudits must go to Marisa Tomei as Cassidy. Her story sort of mirrors Randy's, as she is getting older and is not who the customers pick most of the time, but it is the only thing she knows how to do, so she sticks at it. The tentative relationship between her and Randy is given extra resonance through revelations later in the film, and is both touching and heartbreaking at the same time.
Directed by Darren Aronofsky (who previously gave us the likes of Pi, Requiem for a Dream and the Fountain) and written by Robert Siegel, who deserves every plaudit going for turning in such a brilliant script, this is without a doubt Rourke's movie, turning in a career resurrecting tour de force of a performance.