Darren Aronofsky's latest film, The Wrestler, is simply one of the best movie I have seen in 2008, and it wasn't a surprise when I found out that it won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
The first thing I liked about The Wrestler was the fact that it was sincere and simple and none the less extremly touching. I must say that I am not the movie crying kind of guy but I have to confess that this sad story squeezed a tear or two out of me. Another strongly positive fact is the casting of Mickey Rourke in the role of Randy "The Ram" Robinson. This was a great move coming from the casting director as Rourke is doing his greatest acting performance ever. And surely this is to be due, beside his talent as an actor, to the fact that Randy's sad destiny is in many aspects similar to his. One could say that Rourke is playing himself. And he is doing this in a noble and dignified manner. And I must also mention, on the same level, the presence of the ever charming Marisa Tomei, who plays the streapper Cassidy, the only friend the former wrestler has. The Wrestler depicts a sad and cruel world, but at the same time 100 % real. It is not a movie of elaborate and complex dialogues, but its simpleness has a striking effect on the spectator, like a hammer's smack.
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