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『 Video Introduction 』
Released by Fox Searchlight, directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Micky Locke, Marissa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood, The King of Wrestling is a drama film about the 80s wrestling king "War Sheep" Randy from glory to gloom.
Randy Robinson (Mickey Locke) was a popular professional wrestler in the 80s, nicknamed "War Sheep", who won numerous accolades and pursuits. 20 years later, Randy is still fighting in the wrestling ring, but the glory of the wrestling industry is no longer glorious, and Randy is also a hero who is late and has no past scenery.
Randy, who lives in poverty, can't afford to pay the rent, is locked by the landlord, and can only sleep in the car. The next day I went to the supermarket where I worked, hoping to find more work.
Randy also does some wrestling performances on weekends, discussing with other wrestlers what tricks to use to entertain the audience, which can also reduce accidents.
Randy, who lives alone, can only occasionally go to a strip club and seek some solace in the dancing girl Cassidy (Marissa Tomei).
In order to ensure the state and physical fitness of the wrestling competition, Randy fitness, hair coloring, sunbathing, but also use a lot of steroid drugs, making his body deteriorate, the heart burden is very large.
After a thrilling wrestling performance, Randy suffered a heart attack due to a serious injury, and the doctors performed heart surgery on him, warning him that he could no longer venture on stage and could only do less intense exercise. Randy, who has regained a life, has no choice but to silently quit the wrestling sport he loves and choose retirement.
On the day he was discharged from the hospital, Randy received a reward for his last game — a few hundred dollars.
Randy bought the medicine, paid the rent, and began his lonely retirement, accompanied only by a scar of more than ten centimeters on his chest. Even children don't want to play Nintendo's classic machine with him anymore....
Bored Randy finds the dancer Cassidy and tells her that she has a heart attack and wants a little companionship, Cassidy confesses that she should find her family at this time, and Randy remembers that it is time to talk to her daughter.
After thinking about it for a long time, Randy plucks up the courage to go to the residence of her daughter Stephanie Robinson (Evan Rachel Wood), but as soon as she meets Randy, she is scolded by Stephanie and bloodied.
It turns out that Randy left the family for his beloved wrestling career when he was young, never appeared again, the father-daughter relationship was basically in a cold war state, Randy did not attend her daughter's birthday party, and could not even remember her birthday.... Without companionship and care, Stephanie only had hatred for his father.
Moody Randy attends a wrestler autograph sale, with few fans, and the only people left are Randy and a few other wrestlers who are injured, disabled, or white-haired. Randy saw it in his eyes, the pain in his heart, and he couldn't help it.
Randy goes to the club again to find Cassidy, looking for a way to get close to Stephanie, who suggests buying a dress. Unable to earn a tip all night, Cassidy, who ran into walls everywhere, simply asked Randy to choose clothes together.
After buying clothes for Stephanie, Randy asks Cassidy to go to the bar for a drink, during which the two have an emotional spark, but Cassidy adheres to the principle of "no private contact with customers", regains his composure, drinks a bottle of beer and leaves.
But Randy still had hope, and he pushed off all the games and declared retirement. In order to please her daughter, I bought two pieces of clothing for my daughter, one practical, the other I liked more, double insurance. As a result, Stephanie still prefers the practical one. At Randy's insistence, the father and daughter went to the beach to relive the happy times together in the past, Randy confessed that he regretted not taking care of Stephanie, tears fell, Stephanie was quite moved, and finally returned to his father's arms, and the two even danced. When they were separated, Randy asked Stephanie to have dinner together on Saturday.
Randy ran to the club to thank Cassidy and showed him overtures, Cassidy insisted that he could not have feelings with the customer, pushed Randy's enthusiasm outward, and the two even burst into foul language and scolded each other, making a lot of noise.
Back home, Randy simply went to the scene of the game to watch the wrestling to relax, watching the beloved wrestling game and then having no connection with himself, thinking that his feelings were not accepted by Cassidy, Randy hid in the darkness of the audience, tears swirling in his eyes.
After the game, Randy met the wrestlers and said a few words of greeting, and was invited to the bar for a drink. At the bar, Randy meets a girl, and as a result, the long-suppressed Uncle Randy begins to let go of himself - alcoholism, drug abuse, one-night stands, role play (firefighter), and so on. Randy, who came home the next day, had a headache and lay down to sleep with his head covered.
Randy, who only got up at night, saw The picture of Stephanie and suddenly remembered that today is the day to make an appointment to eat together! Randy braved the rain to rush to his daughter's house, and it is conceivable that Stephanie, whose heart was hurt again, cursed Randy like crazy and drove him out, and the relationship between father and daughter was completely broken as soon as it eased. When Randy left, Stephanie didn't even let him touch himself.
Desperate Randy seems to have returned to reality from a dream. Working at a supermarket, Randy has an emotional breakdown because he can't stand the crooked customers, he smashes his hands, disrupts the goods, and vents his suffocating emotions to the supervisor, the customers, and everyone in the supermarket. He called the organisers to return to wrestling, even without a single honorarium.
Randy goes to Wilmington City for a wrestling performance, and Cassidy wakes up at the club and decides to go to Randy at all costs to prevent him from risking a resumption. Just as Randy was about to play, the two met, Randy confessed that only on the outside would he be hurt, when Cassidy through his own actions hope to keep Randy, asked him how to choose, the music and the audience shouted, Randy only said: "Hear? It's my place, and I'm on the pitch. The head walked away without looking back, and Cassidy was helpless and decided to leave.
Randy's heart aches in the performance was unbearable, and both the opponent and the referee noticed it, but he still insisted on continuing. In the end, when he stood on the rope of the fence of the arena, intending to use the "War Sheep Kill" curtain, he found that Cassidy was long gone at the door of the arena, crushing his last straw of hope, such as Tarzan crushing the top, Randy with tears, and the cry of the scene, with a sense of honor that only wrestling can give him, jumped down....
The film ends with his last figure.
『 Appreciation & Insight 』
Randy is pathetic. Randy paid a lot for his beloved wrestling, once a success, but the reality of helplessness can not be shaken, the wrestling industry has lost its former glory, Randy's era has come to an end.
Randy may fail, but he's not an evil person, and all of his failures in the film have a plausible basis: indulging himself in a bar is because he is emotionally unhappy; forgetting to eat with his daughter is because of the after-effects of wrestling, memory loss, and hearing is also a semi-deaf state; and the big fight in the supermarket is because it doesn't belong to him and can't stand it.
Lonely Randy doesn't mind that Cassidy is a stripper or that she has a 9-year-old son who can't get accepted by the deeply injured Cassidy; the lonely Randy messes up the relationship with her daughter and has no way to turn back. Affection, love can not get, lost the mental strength of Randy can not maintain the supermarket work life, he can not stand the taste of the city, all of it, forced him back to the wrestling ring he once loved, even if there is no reward, the arena that may kill him at any time, is his only glory, but also the only corner that allows him to live with dignity....
Cassidy was pathetic. Cassidy's origin is not revealed in the film, but from her insistence on not having private contact with guests, it is likely that her children are the bitter fruit of the original, making her dare not show her heart again, and making her more determined. When Cassidy advises Randy not to come on stage, Randy doesn't look back, and she doesn't give Randy another chance. The injured Cassidy only wanted to change communities and live again with his children, and did not dare to expect anything else.
Stephanie is pathetic. Stephanie, who had long lacked father's love, hated her father, and when her long-lost father found himself because of a heart attack, she thought that his father needed her care before he appeared in front of him, and Stephanie directly scolded those who did not fulfill their obligations and wanted to get their rights. And when Randy breaks the contract and messes up this ice-breaking journey, Stephanie curses even harder. Whether her encounters are related to her sexual orientation is difficult to say, but from the time she hugs Randy's right arm tightly in the film, it is not difficult to see how much she longs for fatherly love.
In the film, when Randy decides to rematch, the background sounds a rock-style Balls to the wall song, and the once dull atmosphere of the film is suddenly broken, as if Randy has been reborn, which is his desperate resistance to the world and his helpless fate. The atmosphere of the film is blood-pumping, but combined with Randy's encounter, it is very sad, and for a time, the huge contrast makes people feel mixed.
Maybe some people are destined not to be successful in life, but they must be strong in life.
In adult life, there is no word for easy. Finally, may those who strive for a living in the world be loved and contented.
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