Who is you're real family?
"The Wrestler": A 2008 movie production, an Oscar nominee in 2009 for best Actor in a leading role, best Actress is a supporting role in addition to Excellence in Production Design, rated 8.2/10 by 92,000 viewers [s].
My husband and i both enjoy watching movies and rating them accordingly, we both have watched a grate deal of movies that we sometimes find it hard to find something worth the two hours. When i was in search for our next movie few weeks ago i came with this highly rated one. After downloading it however, it turned out that my husband had already seen it, thus, it was doomed to be abandoned in our downloads folder until tonight.
I started the movie expecting one thing and ended up receiving even something better. A sport-drama movie, reflecting a rarely conceived reality, touching story, well directed progress, and very humane. A story of a wrestler growing old on his highly regarded title as the "Ram Jam", however, his need for a job turned his wrestling at an old age to a must. The movie tells the story of two performers, The Ram -the wrestler- and a club woman called Cassidy, both had been at one point in their lives on the elite list, and now both still work in the same field but only for the need of money. Randy -as he prefers to be called- gets a heart-attack after one of his shows, and is recommended by his doctor to quit wrestling, and so he does. Starting to feel lonely he goes to seek his daughter who faces him with total refusal. He then tries to start a steady relationship with Cassidy, but again receives a refusal. At this point Randy quits his second job in a supermarket and calls his old manager to set him in a wrestling show again. Randy finally realizes his real family, the audience were his family, they had never baled on him nor stopped cheering for him. At the end of the movie -and probably his last wrestling match, it was an open ending!-, he gives a touching speech that i found to be the best part of it all.
"A lot of people told me that I'd never wrestle again and that's all I do. You know, if you live hard and play hard and you burn the candle at both ends, you pay the price for it. You know in this life you can loose everything you love, everything that loves you."
"Now I don't hear as good as I used to and I forget stuff and I aint as pretty as I used to be but god damn it I'm still standing here and I'm The Ram!"
"As times goes by, as times goes by, they say "He's Washed Up!", "He's Finished" , "He's A Loser", "He's All Through". You know what? The only one that's going to tell me when I'm through doing my thing is you people here."
A man going down in dignity.
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