{"id":5001,"date":"2018-08-17T09:03:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T13:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?p=5001"},"modified":"2018-09-03T07:57:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T11:57:55","slug":"the-wrestler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2018\/08\/the-wrestler\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wrestler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2008, USA, 109 min.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former pro wrestler Randy &#8220;The Ram&#8221; Robinson (Mickey Rourke) gets a shot at recapturing his 1980s glory days. The timing couldn\u2019t be worse. His estranged daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) is reaching out and he\u2019s getting closer to his crush (Marisa Tomei), a stripper with her own problems. It\u2019s an excruciating dilemma: Should The Ram revel in the intoxicating past or work to improve a dismal present? Rourke looks the part with his craggy fa\u00e7ade and stringy hair, and he brings to life every facet of The Ram&#8217;s pain without resorting to theatrics in this achingly human performance. Tomei and Wood flesh out their characters to show the small progress in The Ram&#8217;s stagnant, self-destructive life. Director Darren Aronofsky (<em>Requiem for a Dream<\/em>) lets the details tell the story\u2014duct tape on The Ram&#8217;s jacket, Wood clutching his arm, Tomei&#8217;s last look before he faces his fate\u2014to create a portrait of a different (but relatable) midlife crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former pro wrestler Randy &#8220;The Ram&#8221; Robinson (Mickey Rourke) gets a shot at recapturing his 1980s glory days.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2018\/08\/the-wrestler\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Wrestler<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-midlife"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5001"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5037,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions\/5037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}