Review of The Wrestler (2008)

This is a film I can watch over and over. I just find it very moving. And it underscores the importance of casting. I can't imagine anyone other than Mickey Rourke in the part. It almost seems to draw on his history of a once famous star turned down-and-out "has been." You really feel for him. Even his choice of Cassidy, the stripper, seems like a self-destructive move. Something that Mickey Rourke would probably do in real life. A+