there is a new Oscar season and galorna relentless. even if no nominations for the "big one" has been released yet, you can pretty easily figure out some of the nominees. instead of to let in February be a month full of reviews this year, I thought to spread them more evenly, over January and February. first off, The Wrestler .
title: The Wrestler
actor: Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood and others.
director: darren arronofsky
companies: protozoa Pictures
length 115 min
years: 2008
country: united states
age: varying between 15 - 16 years in the countries where it has been reviewed .
Reviewed version: Award Consideration copy
tagline: love. Pain. glory.
Oscar nominations:
first Best Actor (Mickey Rourke)
second Best Supporting Actress (Marisa Tomei)
Randy "The Ram" Robinson was a big wrestling star in the sport's heyday in the 80 - century. Now, twenty years later, he lives in a caravan park and works as a warehouse worker. but on weekends jumps randy still from top rope, though he now makes for a much smaller audience than in its heyday. when Randy gets a heart attack after being assaulted his body more than usual, He, however, reflect on their lives.
Mickey Rourke owns this film in total and it is quite interesting to see how the film's action reflects his own career. for those not familiar with him since before it was 80 - Rourke's heyday and he projected a bright future for the action genre. really stupid decisions (like to say no to Tom Cruise's role in Rain Man or indeed turn down the lead role in beverly hills cop ) and his eccentric personality did, however, sticks in the wheels for him and eventually no one wanted to hire him longer. after a successful boxing career, returned he was acting and got his second "breakthrough" as Marv in Sin City . Rourke shows in this movie that he played much more than a competently action actor. He has a feel and presence that few are privileged and the question is whether any actor has been able to play like this punch drunk late Sylvester Stallone did rocky . He also won his first Golden Globe for this role so that he will be nominated for an Oscar is not a particularly far-fetched guess.
the other actors will naturally give way to Rourke's outstanding game. Marisa Tomei is good but has a rather thankless role to work with as a rather cliché "whore with a heart of gold in nature". Evan Rachel Wood is very good as Rourke's daughter but is unfortunately far too few scenes for her to make a bigger impression. interesting also to see any more or less well-known wrestlers that glimpses by in cameos.
when I was a kid was wrestling a drug for me. every weekend drove tv3 a wrestling program commented by Hoa-Hoa Dahlgren and quite wonderfully geeky bruno. when I was in my teens wrestling was not tough enough to look at and I forgot about this form of entertainment. some years later I download an old wrestling gala and became semi-bitten again. Now, it was not the habilt constructed stories that interested me as much as it was the wrestlers themselves. Thus, I had a rather profound prior knowledge of wrestling on and off the stage before I saw this movie. there is absolutely no need, but small details get lost on the uninitiated. well, what I want out is that the film succeeds very well in portraying the entertainment industry and the way it erodes the people who work in it. wrestling feel to the greatest extent to be fake, but there is no doubt it wears on your body something huge. Basically, the film succeeds with its portrait of a form of entertainment that has largely seen the very bottom of the society at large.
movie is obviously not just a movie about wrestling but also about love, friendship and family relationships. On the whole the film succeeds even with these themes, although the beginnings of the love relationship between Rourke and Tomei are a bit too cliché for my taste. I personally would have preferred that the script had explored Randy's family situation a little deeper and that evan rachel wood had been more scenes. what bothers me a bit with the script is just that it gets a little too a lot of Bruce Springsteen over it. do not misunderstand me, I love Springsteen, but the theme of working class hero is very difficult to get to but it will turn into drivel. as to emphasize this, Springsteen wrote the theme song ...
upper hand is very, very good. Darren Aronofsky broke through with a bang with requiem for a dream (which incidentally is the best film about drug problems I've seen) but unfortunately fuzzy drew out plenty of The Fountain . now he has returned to a more realistic tone of his film making and it is particularly noticeable on the upper hand. The Wrestler a dogmalik style of camera work and environments, but Aronofsky runs thankfully not all the way out purely stylistic. as his earlier films he uses music in a very efficient manner, and the soundtrack is his own little declaration of love for 80's metal scene. takes are long, sweeping and the use of hand-held camera work very well. Overall, a very well organized film.
I saw the trailer for this film for nearly six months ago and since then I have barely been able to wait until it came out. This is one of last year's best films. I have complained about some clichés in the script, but the final product is so honest and so naked that it works in spite of them. I certainly would not mourn if this film won a major at the Oscars.
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