{"id":609,"date":"2009-02-06T04:10:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T08:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=609"},"modified":"2009-05-12T09:01:27","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T13:01:27","slug":"the-wrestler-things-that-comfort-me-i-drive-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"The Wrestler – “Things That Comfort Me I Drive Away”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just finished seeing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Wrestler.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 I was fortunate enough to attend a private viewing of it early this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 To be honest, my life has been so busy lately that I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even know about this movie even though the actor won best actor in a drama just recently.\u00c2\u00a0 It had just not come up on my radar so when I got the last minute invitation, I had to look at a quick preview on the internet to even be a bit aware of it before I went.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d heard Bruce Springsteen sing the theme song. It was poignant and descriptive of the main character.\u00c2\u00a0 It talks about a man that spent most of his life driving away the things that comfort him in his life.\u00c2\u00a0 It talks about the frustration and hopelessness of a man who \u00e2\u20ac\u0153punches nothing but the breeze\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and describes himself as a trick poney, a one legged dog, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a one legged man trying to dance his way free.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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My first thought was, why?\u00c2\u00a0 My second thought was, I see.\u00c2\u00a0 I see. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about life.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a strong dose of reality.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I recommend an adult only audience for this movie. It is R rated and there are lots of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153R\u00e2\u20ac\u009d scenes.\u00c2\u00a0 All that said, it is not just for the music I suggest it but for the awesome way it so accurately depicts life in the depths of despair when times don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get better and how, sometime, the efforts to straighten out one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always work out. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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My wish for you today<\/strong> is that you never get to the point in your life that you drive away the things that comfort you. If you see someone who depicts that, lend them a hand when you can. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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~ Joellen<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just finished seeing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Wrestler.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 I was fortunate enough to attend a private viewing of it early this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 To be honest, my life has been so busy lately that I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even know about this movie even though the actor won best actor in a drama just recently.\u00c2\u00a0 It had just not come […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conflicts","category-personal-challenges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}