Micky Rourke recently starred in the critically acclaimed movie The Wrestler. I haven't watched wrestling in years, and have no interest in seeing the movie. But a little addendum to the story caught my eye.
Apparently, Rourke did such an amazing acting job that he caught the notice of the WWE. Now, he will be participating at Wrestlemania.
My question is: What do you call this? We use the phrase "life imitating art" but is that what this is? I mean, wrestling is fake, so it isn't life. Wrestling is fake-life. So the movie was art imitating fake-life. Therefore this stunt by Rourke of participating in Wrestlemania is something like fake-life (wrestling) imitating art(the movie) which was imitating the real lives (professional wrestlers) of those who participate in fake-life (wrestling) which imitates real life (fighting) but in such fake ways (hitting each other with metal chairs and still getting up) that it doesn't resemble real life except that now people video themselves actually doing this stuff to each other in their backyards.
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