>>19483797>>19483817This is deep, though. This entire farewell trip was deeply psychological. Wrestling is pure jungian storytelling.
>>19483902There is far more into everything than the subtle, though. You people are ignorant to context. No one is making things up to overcomplicate it. There are many layers to wrestling, as there is for any storytelling. And wrestler has the added human component, that painful tussle between character and man. Wrestles are shamans, especially the good ones. They tell the stores that compose the encore canon of mankind, that is why they succeed. People like Cena, Punk, Austin.
If you don't understand storytelling, archetypes of the human mind, how succesful human stories fall into repetions of these same stories, and how the wrestlers are the ultimate victims of this, you are hopeless.
In the retirement match of Cena, the curtains are not just blue. There are things happening within the spectator, within the crowd, within Cena, within the script and within Gunther (who really could be anyone, this was a Cena VS Himself match. Even odd how many of the spots, it is Cena harming himself too).
There is so much happening in these 15 minutes of fighting, and in the farewell tour. This is one of the clearest journeys of embracing one's shadow and gradually coming to terms with it. And in the end, there is the beautiful 'tap out', this good action of Cena towards himself. He could have chosen to pass out like in other matches in the past, but this has far more meaning.
I am glad John Cena is finally free of the archetype, but there is a reason why we are feeling in grief today, as if someone had died. Someone indeeed died yesterday on camera, but this someone had to die because Cena could not and did not want to bear the weight of him anymore. He then gave us a smile and a farewell, and faded.
