The Wrestler [Blu-ray] Overview
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Item Type: BLU-RAY DVD Movie
Item Rating: R
Street Date: 04/21/09
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve
The Wrestler [Blu-ray] Specifications
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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Customer Reviews
more for its visual appeal with fascinating stories, director / writer / producer Darren Aronofsky presents a different and perhaps better known in addition to his mastery of storytelling.
I realized for the first time Aronofsky, after his impressive Requiem for a Dream in 2000. Lapped by the unique visual narrative of this film, I moved six years later to see the good. Extraordinary in almost everyone, especially the special effects and how to weave, I integratedthen went out and tried everything I found this one man. What I found was very little. A few small productions before 2000, Aronofsky is a mystery, is not there a movie out of every eight months, as some directors.
So when I heard that praise has been heaped on it Wrestler with great surprise I discovered that Aronofsky was both producer and director. I was not surprised because it was him, but because the story not only do not like something, do what it would sound. IThat is, if the optics in the story of a washed-up pro wrestler? Time to eat some crow for me ...
The look is not there, but they should be. This is a myopic view that all their objective focuses on a man, and makes it so powerful, an incredible story that fans of things like Rocky, Raging Bull and songs by Brian would be proud if they are covered rank their favorite movies on sport of all time, is in my top five.
Much of the funwas sent back to the movie star Mickey Rourke. Coming back, you ask? If it had been? Strangely the appropriate time, Rourke has taken to action and went after one of his earlier: love boxing. From 1991 to 1995, Rourke was a professional boxer and won a series of games. But it also has some injuries, the face-crushing reconstructive surgery was required. These lesions are still great wrestlers, but also give the film version of Rourke's face is a charmas we speak, that a downward spiral of the ring, the body is able to keep pace.
The use of hearing aids, reading glasses, and having to work in a supermarket, come to make ends meet, Randy "The Ram Robinson (Rourke) is to discover what lay ahead for him a successful wrestler earlier, death after a fan he is. .. type like him.
In addition to "The Ram" is a stripper, that even on his swing down. Aging and pushed aside by younger,strippers beautiful, Cassidy (Marissa Tomei, Wild Hogs disdain) The Ram romantic advances. It still feels like some time in the stripper's got his left, although the score, where she seems to say otherwise. The force with which she draws Tomei shattered to learn sexual object, but the body needs more than to dance around a pole is incredible to see. But you can learn Cassidy, the Ram's love for them is something they need before it's too late? This is where theCore of the story really pulls the viewer and keeps us up to the end, very much.
The history of the estranged daughter Stephanie mutton (Evan Rachel Wood, Across the Universe) is also a very human characteristic, the main character and gives us a more detailed analysis of the character missing many films. Moreover, the increase of Ram solitude in a world where aging sports figures learn from their mistakes and try to start again leads often emerge from old habits againand destruction of this possibility.
Finally, I must mention the gritty film style that have chosen to Aronofsky The Wrestler. camera in hand and looking grainy film material have all gone a year-by-the feeling that much has been adjusted. Also saved a lot of money. In fact, The Wrestler costs only $ 7 million to make, but apparently has written more than 70 million dollars from this. The fact is that not shocking to me again ten times what is being done to make the costs, but that did Aronofskywithout significant effects used in the Fountain (cost = $ 35,000,000 to do), which shows the director the opportunity to do just any film, in all circumstances, with minimal effort. Although such information can not be terribly interesting film, I find this story very admirable film multi-gazillion U.S. dollars, the green light and then to get the box office flop.
Aronofsky is the man. It is a curriculum vitae to be proud of havingtoo. And The Wrestler should be high on his list. Should rank high on your own, too. Make sure that the performance Rourke. Have fun, because Aronofsky has a fantastic job.
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