@aldy 1st off let me say I hate wrestling too, but my god how you missed the point by your blinded hatred of showcase wrestling. The anything goes wrestling is meant to make you feel uncomfortable and show the lengths washed up wrestlers past their prime will go to still feel the connection/relevance from an audience they've craved from their early days. It's rare any would go into it wanting to do only that but it really shows the state of the people in and what they're willing to do but yeah of course there is an audience for it.
It's funny that you explicitly mention ballet when the director made a sister piece to this on that exact subject showcasing the similarities of obsession in these fields and the toll it takes on your body and the performers reaction to their inevitable decline and coming to grips, Black Swan was literally supposed to be in this movie too but he decided against that. I think it's there show how far off his initial wrestling days as he clamours for something in his life as because he was so enthralled in it at the time he's left alone with nothing and its not indicative of WWE wrestling style that people like or get into
Shout by aldyBlockedParent2014-12-26T09:11:21Z
The Wrestler helped me realise wrestling is disgusting and wrestling fans should really find a better hobby. That anything-goes fight made me so uncomfortable, how on earth could anybody ever want to watch or take part in that? Go dance ballet or something, at least when you go crazy doing that, you'll look cool doing so. Other than the grotesque nature of those parts of the movie, the rest of it was actually really good. The story itelf was great and Mickey Rourke was outstanding. If I was a more reasonable person, I might even say it was a great movie because the wrestling parts did exactly what they were supposed to do, but good thing I'm not then because wrestling sucks. "The only place I get hurt is out there." ;_;