Rourke's comeback

Rating: 7/10 (30 December 2010)

Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler is literally a great movie.It is about an almost down and out,kind of stroke professional wrestler named Ram who has passed on his prime and just wrestlers in Indys(independent promotions).He has no money to pay for the rent of his tiny apartment which is located in a slum and sleeps inside his van,his body has been devastated,his daughter hates him and his only relationship is a friendly one with a 44-year-old stripper named Pam who has also a son.After having a hard attack which almost costs him his life and after being told from the doctors that he must never wrestle again,he decides to try to make up for the things he has done in the past.First of all through some very emotional scenes,he makes things better between him and his daughter Stephanie.Secondly,he creates a relationship between him and Pam(not the customer-employee one).But while he seems to rise from his personal bottom,a complication on the relationship between him and Pam,he strikes rock bottom once again and destroys everything he had done.Then in a situation of desperation,anger and self-hatred he decides to make the big,final comeback and returns in the thing that- according to him- loves the most and is being loved the most,professional wrestling...
Mickey Rourke is extraordinary and deserves to be applauded for making one of the biggest comebacks in cinema's history.The role of the broken physically and emotionally man who has passed on his prime suits perfectly on Mickey Rourke and when his character says "It's not over until you (pointing at the audience) tell me its over" and "I don't hear as good as I used to, and I ain't as pretty as I used to be. But I'm still here" the things are getting mixed a little bit between real life and the movie.Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood are very good too in the roles of the soon-to-retire poor stripper and the emotionally hurt and fulled with hatred Stephanie respectively while Darren Aronofsky's direction is once again breathtaking.
To sum up,this movie is not just pointing to wrestling fans but to the whole world about what is behind the big lights,the shinny attires,the pretty faces,the nice bodies and the glamor that people watch in the TV,and should be watched by everyone because of this and of course because of one of the most thrilling returns in the history of cinema,Mickey Rourke's...