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If you haven’t seen the Wrestler yet, what are you waiting for? Don’t you think it’s at the top of everyone’s movie downloads queue for a reason? Actually, you’re probably sick of hearing about the movie at this point, so why not just watch the darn thing and get it over with?

Rourke really does provide the heart and soul of this movie, and even the body, taking some real bumps in the name of giving a great show. He plays Randy The Ram Robinson, a wrestler who was huge in the eighties, during the hair metal days, and has since faded into obscurity. He still wrestles, but it doesn’t pay the bills alone, as he wrestles for small crowds, and he has to supplement his income with hours at the grocery store.

Randy’s lifestyle has been self destructive, and it’s cost him everything. He’s paying the price, having lost touch with his daughter, and while he and the boys at the locker room are always close, he really doesn’t have any true, close friends.

The movie will rip your heart out, showing Randy as he is in a light that it as once both humane, and unforgiving. He’s not given a pass for the mistakes he’s made, but he’s shown as a real human being, whose feelings are valid. He’s made mistakes, but that doesn’t make him a monster, and he’s shown in a loving light, if not an always flattering one.

Rourke is, again, incredible here. He lived this role in life for years, suffering through all sorts of problems and losing his place in the Hollywood pecking order. This movie is Rourke’s comeback, his story, just as it is Randy’s. Rourke didn’t just play this role, he was this role. Interestingly, Nicholas Cage was offered the job and dropped out because he knew his friend Rourke wanted it, and, in fact, would have done a better job.

They might have been able to secure a bigger budget had Cage stayed on, but the end result is a smaller, more intimate, personal movie, and it’s all that much better for it. Rourke wrestles for small crowds, and it really drives home the fact that Randy gives his all to every show, whether he’s wrestling for a few thousand fans or a few dozen. He really bleeds it out.

The story is an old one, the characters are stock, but it never feels cliche or predictable. The movie is invested with such real humanity that it really feels like a unique, one of a kind tale of loss and redemption. Even if you weren’t so big on Pi and Requiem for a Dream, this may be Darren Aronofsky’s masterpiece, and it certainly shows a deeper level of humanity than his previous efforts.

When you hear the acoustic song by Springsteen at the end, take a moment to reflect on what the ending really means. This movie has a lot of depth, and sits somewhere between Rocky and Raging Bull in the pantheon of sports movies. It is, at once, heart breaking and heart warming, both upbeat and tragic, and the ending really drives that home. At the very least, it’s a story you’ll never forget.

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