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Ain’t It Cool News - Just got back from the Premiere of The Wrestler at the Venice Film festival.
First off I would like to say I’m a huge fan of Aronofskys work and he has been very influential.
The Wrestler received a standing ovation!
Good movie but I would put it at the end of the list of films hes made. The reasons…
I expected something visually amazing, composition wise, art direction etc. As a big wrestling fan in the past, you have to consider that its all eye candy/sensory overload, huge explosions, outrages costumes and Aronofsky could of made us experience this on the largest scale with how he knows to play with sound and visuals. I DO realize The Ram is washed up and going through the after effects of an illustrious career, I think Aronofsky wanted to achieve the same effect in another way with Rourke BEING the visually amazing. But why not do it all? Did he think it would take away from Rourke’s performance? Requiems amazing inventive visuals didn’t take away from Burstyns performance… My favorite scene from the The Wrestler shows Randy the Ram working behind the deli counter at a supermarket and an old fan starts to recognize him, as he starts pointing out who he is, Randy sticks his finger in the cutter that he was using to chop some food up and starts roid raging! Smearing his face with his own blood and yelling at everyone in sight. Just losing it! Part of the film I disliked was the repetitive back shots, If I ever see this film again Ill have to count how much time we spend following Rourke from the back, this started getting annoying after a while, it fills the movie… [Full Story]
