The Wrestler

Despite having some idea what this movie is about did not do much to prepare me for the kind of emotions that it brought about during its course.
Although this movie is very down to Earth. It is nevertheless a truly depressingly sad tale. Nothing in it feels puffed up at all. To sum it up in a few words: It does not get more real than this!

Some parts of the show are shot in chase-cam style which instantly gave the movie its poignant feel and some scenes are truly graphic in both good light and bad ones.

I am sure we have all been exposed to the glamour of professional wrestling, if not at some stage, been fans of the charade ourselves.
However, this film gives us an insight to one particular wrestler's Life and the pain he goes through in his later years. Somehow I cannot help but feel that his character speaks for many of those in the industry.

Needless to say, the story literates much morals and values about second chances (hits and misses). What it is that we do well in Life and how everything comes to a stand-still when we stop doing exactly those things.