06:04:09: THE WRESTLER ONLY PERFORMANCE IN OLDENBURG:
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"The Wrestler" is a double comeback. First, by Darren Aronofsky, who was on his way to sink his career in his own hand: After the millennium would have a film he is in retrospect perhaps saving more - with "PI" and "REQUIEM FOR A DREAMR" like a bomb hit in the international film scene, wasted his six valuable career years to realize his dream project "THE FOUNTAIN". But if, after "The Fountain" fear already had that one of the most talented directors of the last decade threatened to lose itself in narcissistic egomania, is "The Wrestler" so now as a reassuring antithesis: a film so modest, so withdrawn, so simple and yet so strong that its director general is no longer recognizes. Darren Aronofsky hereby re-invents itself - and thus presumably saved his career. The other comeback - the really remarkable still more important - is Mickey Rourke. In the 80s he was one of the biggest stars of Hollywood movies like "9 ½ Weeks" and "Angel Heart" made him a worldwide sex symbol. Then came the almost cinematic crash. Alcohol, selfishness, parties, women, drugs - the usual spiral of self-destruction, culminating in Rourke's decision to try to be a professional boxer. What was the alk of his pretty face even more left over to Rourke was now in years of diligent work to hit club. It would be best as a cautionary example for the self-destructive forces of a Hollywood career remembered remained - would not come, and Robert Rodriguez would have realized what a potential in the new, ruined Mickey Rourke infected. Rodriguez cast him as Marv, that broke drunk but indestructible beast of a man that has become strangely touching moral center of the comic orgy of violence "SIN CITY" - an occupation stroke of genius that was certainly the inspiration for this film. For in fact there is probably no actor whose personal fate would have it more suited for the title role here as Rourke. And the swings with such a grateful submission to completely new heights. At the 2008 Venice Film Festival won "The Wrestler" the Golden Lion, and also and especially thanks to Mickey Rourke.
The titular (fictional) wrestler is Randy "The Ram" Robinson, who was in the good old 80's one of the greats of the scene. Randy is now around 50 and really far too old for the ring. Still, he could never solve it, and has just made more and more. The celebrity-wire passed down the scene, he found employment for now with dreary small-town events, where amateurs tried before delivering little more than a hundred spectators show their struggles. His withering Image is everything, so Randy can earn something, and it shall continue Unters Solarium, can to melt over the Korean hairdresser round the corner, the blonde mane, and if it serves to entertain the sparse audience, Randy also says not to fight No, come in which Tacker and barbed wire is used. All for a good show of unwavering "Ram". Until he breaks down after a fight and make the doctors clear to him that his heart no longer participated. Still a struggle, and it could be his last. What now?
"The Wrestler" is masterful, deeply rooted in the nature of reality theater, a jewel of independent film, and just as Aronofsky directed the film. Particularly in view of the fact that the famous director has become a highly stylized production, which indicated permanently in their often bulky, alternately beguiling and disturbing aesthetic to itself, is almost barren of minimalism, which Aronofsky is here to work, an enormous surprise. There is almost nothing in this film, what attracts the attention of the audience that here was a director at work at all. No soundtrack that plays on the emotional keyboard. Coarse, grainy images, captured by a quasi-documentary, walking with the characters hand-held camera, hardly a section that must not be - there is nothing in this film through to its director. And that is why he is such a big step for Aronofsky forward. Because he is freed from everything that has defined his films so far, and his work only in the service of the story is - and that means in this case, the characters and their actors the chance to fully develop to give. "The Wrestler" is not a spectacular film. Quite the contrary, quite conscious of it, and the system has: he does without any form of attraction to reveal a figure whose very existence has become fixated on attraction. Wrestling is not sport, it's a circus show, where ever it is clear who will win in the end, the good guys are always the big hero and there is never a tragic loser - so that everything is the way the public would see wants. How this beautiful Aronofsky Illusory world deconstructed with essential sobriety, and as Mickey Rourke actually does for his life to illustrate the tragedy of being able to not escape from this world, that's plain and simple - and absolutely gorgeous.
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