Barfly
Before The Wrestler took the world by storm_ Bafly was considered Mickey Rourke’s most passionate and gritty performance. This dark tale of drunkenness_ violence and self loathing refects his brooding persona perfectly. Add to this the fact that his character is a phenomenally talented but self destructive artist and you’d swear the role had written for him. Barlfy is the fictionalised autobiography by cult writer and underground hero_ Charles Bukowski and is an unflinching portrayal of life one step up from the gutter. Rourke’s performance as a self hating_ mean spirited anti-hero is darl and brutal but retains a kind of selfish_ desperate beauty_ especially in respect to the doomed relationship that develops between him and a fellow lost a soul.
