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...MANY HIGH SCHOOL wrestlers recognize their own mortality during their senior year? They are painfully abundant in the recent movie Vision Quest. Louden Swain (Matthew Modine), concluding that you are born and then you die, decides to starve himself and train hard enough to drop two weight divisions and take on the most feared wrestler in the state, Brian Shute, as his grand fling into the nothingness that awaits him. Louden is a jock going for the gusto, a nihilist wrestling for a Michelob Light...
Will Carla have sex with Louden? Will Louden beat Shute, the feared wrestler who bites the throats of his opponents? All of these questions are asked and some of the answers are mildly interesting...
...Becker would have been better letting the characters' actions speak for themselves. Instead he lets the various characters take stabs at his nihilist theme, rendering it ridiculous. Louden brings up the meaning of life in English class. His boss at work throws around his philosophical views. Even a fellow wrestler does some moralizing...
...captain Barry Bananas who made in the nationals for the first time in his highly successful Harvard wrestling career (67-17-2 over the past four years), both the season and his Harvard wrestling career ended with a 13-11 loss to a Montana State wrestler...
Bausano was then automatically eliminated from the consolation rounds when the Montana State wrestler lost his next match...