Mickey rourke biography the wrestler ending

Darren Aronofsky's 2008 film The Wrestler, released ten years ago today, has my favorite ending of all time because we, the audience, are not around to see it end.

The beautiful thing about film is that it's a brief window into another world.

We airdrop into these characters' lives for two-ish hours and then we're booted back out again, leaving them alone to live, and die, and eat, and fuck, and whatever it is they do without us gawking at them through the screen.

When a movie feels truly alive, you know that the story goes on after the credits roll, even if you're not allowed to see it. I love endings, live for a great movie ending, which is hard in a time when major movies don't want to end.

In a Marvel-dominated pop culture economy it so often feels like you're watching an extended preview for the next thing, where even the end-credits are interrupted with promises of m