the wrestler

a heart breaking look at someone who is far past their prime try and relive their glory days just one more time. a glimpse at what it is like to feel passionately about something and then be told you cant do it anymore, like an artist who is forbidden to paint, or a musician forbidden to play. the main character has spent his whole life in the ring, and found much success there, but that was twenty years ago. he continues to follow that dream thinking that he will once again rise to the top. his focus on this goal has put his family to the side. now, he wants to reconnect with his daughter who wants nothing to do with him. he is a loser who knows hes a loser, deserving of this lonely sad life he finds himself in. as he tries to seek redemption it becomes a story of a man who knows whats best, but cant resist the pull of the long dead dream. this is a brilliant study of a broken man who knows what he needs to do to fix himself, but he just cant get himself to do it.