The mastery of brainwashing is to from images in peoples heads and then have them agree with you,they thinking they came up with the independent thought Movie brainwashing is the art of stronger thinkers that know how to manipulate the mostly weaker...

Good to see director Darren Aranofsky is also making a comeback after The Fountain, which was good but not great like Pi / Requiem For a Dream / Wrestler.

I have to give him some grudging respect. He's a good actor and all but destroyed himself; kudos for him to bringing himself back.

i've never liked this guy. He just seems like a big depressed oaf. His mouth hardly moves when he speaks and he looks like he's taken steroids for the majority of his life. I don't see how a movie about a wrestler can make it big, but apparently if...

Very good movie. I have to think Rourke was playing himself, because his performance was one of the most convincing I've ever seen.