If love is a prayer...

Nadia 2022-04-21 09:01:23

I watched 3/4 of this movie in my spare time at noon. I rode my car on the way to get off work, thinking about the predictable ending. A sentence floated in my mind, "If love is a prayer,..." I didn't find a suitable word to replace it. This ellipsis.

If you especially want to get it, but the other person is not willing to give it, love becomes a kind of prayer.

"Heavy Hammer" has a brilliant career. After 20 years, he is still the protagonist in the wrestling arena. He is very respected. He has a good relationship with wrestlers, agents, and neighbors' children. He is a powerful and brave warrior in the eyes of the audience. They gave him Love is cheap and easy to get. The landlord and the employment agency didn't mean to love him. In their eyes, he was just a pauper, and he didn't ask for more. As long as there was a place to live and a job, it was fine. In the relationship with the stripper, it was originally caring and tenderness in exchange for money, but when he realized that he was getting old and had a heart attack, he wanted to upgrade the relationship to find a "wife" for himself, but he didn't have the "old capital". "Let him feel guilty. In the relationship with his daughter, the father's love was something he had no time to give for many years, nor did he know how to give it. When he wanted to gain his daughter's love, he found that not a single swear word scolded by his daughter was true.

In this way, the two most important loves became prayers in the weak heart of "Heavy Hammer"'s aging body. In order to harvest the two most important survival capital, he has worked hard and is very skilled, but it still backfired, so in despair, he armed his old body and strengthened his strong heart, like the brave Dunbar Just like the lieutenant, he ran towards the splendid hail of bullets, and he opened his bow without turning back the arrow. At this time, the retention was so weak.

When love becomes a prayer, acquisition is so passive, but should we continue to pursue such love? "Heavy Hammer" gave his answer, what about us in life? Should we abandon this line of thinking and change the channels of the brain so that love becomes an expression?

The commentary is like this movie, there is no ending, like the lyrics of the vertical line, it is unclear whether the end of the dream is a labyrinth or a clear sky.

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Extended Reading
  • Lavonne 2022-04-24 07:01:03

    7.4 At first, I thought it was about a hero's twilight. In the middle, I thought it was about the self-salvation of a bastard father. It was not until the end that I realized that it was just the "Wrestling King". Randy, who has a positive image in the arena, has infinite popularity, but in real life, he has no fixed place, his family is broken, and his love scene is unsatisfactory. This great sense of gap can make people ignore life and death. Randy has made a choice, but perhaps for him, even if he falls in the ring, the pleasure brought by the lingering shouts in his ears is much simpler and more practical than father-daughter family and son-in-law. He's a bastard and a conceited addict, but he's also a wrestling king! Until the day of death, it is the time to disarm. In addition, as an old WWE audience, several battles can still bring a shocking visual experience, which is comparable to the "Ambulance Battle", plus one star.

  • Antonette 2021-10-20 19:02:32

    At the end of the film, Mickey Rourke leaped from the corner of the wrestling ring, Bruce Springsteen's singing sounded, and a man was born again. All men who shared the same illusions about the past, resentment for today, and longing for the future are reborn.

The Wrestler quotes

  • Randy 'The Ram' Robinson: The only place I get hurt is out there.

    [Randy points away from the ring]

    Randy 'The Ram' Robinson: The world don't give a shit about me.

  • Randy 'The Ram' Robinson: Hey, this is supposed to say 'Randy'.

    Wayne: I guess personnel just got it off your W-4.

    Randy 'The Ram' Robinson: WAYNE!... Do I gotta wear it?

    Wayne: No... you're special.

    Randy 'The Ram' Robinson: WAYNE!... Can they fix it?

    Wayne: Just wear the fucking thing, ok?