I haven't written a film review for a long time, so much so that I have forgotten a few elements of film criticism, and perhaps the structure and paragraphs of this article are not the most professional, but I think it can reflect some of my inner thoughts.
In fact, the classification of the crowd watching this movie is actually not particularly understood, perhaps many people do not know what is called wrestling, may think that it is "wrestling"? Or some kind of fighting event. But in my personal case, I used to be a real wrestling fan, when I was in junior high school, I loved watching wrestling, and the first time I watched wrestling was to see my father watch again, it was a game that Seamus played big show brother, and it made me feel particularly violent at the time. I thought it was true, but then my dad didn't let me see it, and I secretly watched it myself, and I also understood that this was actually a show, a performance, but I still watched it with relish. Later, I also found my own party in the class, and the two people's favorite thing to do after studying was to discuss what happened to last week's RAW and SD. Going to talk about Randy Oton's RKO, the guillotine of the funeral, etc., is also a very memorable memory for me.
Back to the plot of the movie "King of Wrestling", it tells the story of "War Sheep" Randy, as a dazzling star in the American independent wrestling circle in the 80s of the last century, he left countless classic games, and the unique battle sheep flying body pressure won many avid wrestling fans. However, with the rapid development of the industry and the decline of physical health, the era of "war sheep" has long gone.
The splendor of the 80s
As the time comes to 20 years, Randy will also be old. The beginning of the film is shot from the back for a few minutes, followed by Randy, after learning about the wrestlers after completing a performance, walking out of the venue, they are also workers who clock in and out of work, they will also need to take painkillers, need bandages, go down three or four times for wages, they are hero in the ring, and they are just an ordinary person in life. But they also reflect the habits of most Americans, how much they earn and how much they spend. He's been glamorous for 20 years, and he's still haunted by tomorrow's lunch. He didn't have a property of his own, had no money to pay his rent, was locked and had to sleep in his car. But he loves the sport, wears a hearing aid in his ear, and insists on it.
After another tough game, he fainted in the locker room. Waking up in the hospital. The doctor said to him, you can't do this sport anymore. A wrestler who can no longer perform in the ring. For him, the guy he ate was lost, and he felt lost. Feel troubled. At first, of course, he did not want to accept reality, and he warmed up alone in the wild, and the pain in his heart still made him unable to stand. He knew that he might actually be retiring.
The old man has nothing to rely on
When he didn't have a job, he was no longer the invincible "war sheep", he was now just a terrible father, his grown daughter never had any good feelings for him, he didn't know his daughter's birthday, he didn't know the music she liked, the clothes she liked, the only photo of her daughter was still an old yellowed photo of her childhood. He loves his daughter right, but he doesn't know how to love, he doesn't know how to be a good father, and all he brings to his daughter is to hurt her again and again.
He also tried to save his bad life, worked in the supermarket, tried to accept it all, but when he was called out by a fan, everything seemed to be stuck, he was still the "war sheep", he couldn't go back to Randy. Like when he was bored shouting kids Adam playing games, it's all wrestling games, the characters are exactly himself, but it's Nintendo in the 80s, Adam asks him if he knows Call of Duty 4, he doesn't know. The conversation between buying clothes for her daughter and the stripper reinforces Randy's inability to accept reality for her memories of the glorious times of the 80s.
Randy knows that only he truly belongs to the wrestling field, and everyone can easily leave, but he is destined to stay here forever. In the final stages of the film, he abandons everything, he enjoys the ring, enjoys the shouts of the fans, and performs his last dance. He used his own stunts. Flying in the air, the film is over, maybe he is still alive, maybe he has burned his last life.
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At this point, the story is over, and "The King of Wrestling" is more about the scenery of the workplace, but about a kind of dilemma for the entanglement of reality. Everyone has more or less a similar experience. Although Randy is helpless to the outside world and messes up his personal life, he still deserves admiration, and this courage inspires those who can empathize. Wrestlers who fight in the wrestling ring are always heroes.
The most outstanding part of this movie is that the documentary-style film seems to fall into the clichéd plot, but it is not clichéd, and when Randy thinks he can enjoy a dull life, his emotional dependence is shaken, a feeling of some cruelty, a feeling of real shaking. The performance of the lead actor Miki Rock is indeed very natural, after all, he was also an actor who entered the trough before, and this role that fits him well completed his glory again, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Recently because of the epidemic, such a character who is full of realism in the real sense of action is indeed full of appeal, after all, compared to Randy, most people still have a healthy heart, facing the difficulties of life, just like Randy, struggling to stand on a high place, and then jumping.
"Have you ever seen a one-legged man want to dance freely?" If you've seen him, you've seen me. ”