The Wrestler

My mother-in-law bought my wife and I a blu-ray player in November.  So, of course, I asked for Best Buy gift cards for Christmas and bought a grrrrrrip of discs for New Year's.

One of the several discs that I bought was Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler (2008).





Evan Rachel Wood's "Because you're a fuck up!  You're a living breathing fuck up!" rant is fantastic.  Lately, or at least in the last few months, I've been using the term fuck up a lot -- mostly because I live 5 miles from San Francisco and have to endure autumn- and winter-long 49ers seasons.  I think most people use it as a verb (to fuck up), an exclamatory way to describe the action of a situation gone awry:

"Well, Joanie, we really fucked that up."

But the noun, the fuck up, describes that particular character of person that, at a much greater frequency than your average person, fucks things up.  Generally friendly, forlorn, and always down on his luck, the fuck up more often than he should, tends to make a terrible decision at every crucial moment of their life.

Some famous fuck ups in history:

1. George W. Bush
2. Cain
3. Colonel Sanders
4. BP
5. Al Gore


BR loves this movie because Marisa Tomei is naked pretty much the whole time.  i love it because of course Darren Aronofsky is a genius.  Anyway, that's that.