The Commute

2011 ""

The Commute

9.4 | en | Documentary

Ride with professional wrestler Giant Bernard on his 12,000-mile monthly journey from his home in the USA to the ring in Japan. Using an innovative fusion of image and sound, The Commute captures a family man's struggle to balance the brutal and the beautiful.

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Released: April. 14,2011 | Released Producted By: New Japan Pro-Wrestling , 25th Frame Country: Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Matt Bloom , Hiroshi Tanahashi , Shinsuke Nakamura

Director

James Lefkowitz

Producted By

New Japan Pro-Wrestling , 25th Frame

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Cast

Matt Bloom

as Himself

Lucha Mexico The Dog Wedding WWE Night of Champions 2013 WWE Money In The Bank 2012 The Commute WWE No Mercy 2003 WWE SummerSlam 2003 WWE Wrestlemania XIX WWE Armageddon 2002

Hiroshi Tanahashi

as Himself

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16: Night 1 NJPW & NOAH: Wrestle Kingdom 16 - Night 3 NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16: Night 2 New year’s Golden Series night 14 NJPW Wrestling Dontaku NJPW Capital Collision AEW x NJPW Presents Forbidden Door NJPW New Year’s Golden Series Night 1 NJPW New Year’s Golden Series Night 9

Shinsuke Nakamura

as Himself

WWE Clash of Champions 2019 WWE Smackville WWE Extreme Rules 2018 WWE Backlash 2018 WWE Money in the Bank 2018 WWE Hell in a Cell 2017 ROH & NJPW: Global Wars - Night 1 ROH: Aftershock Tour - Philadephia NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2015 - Day 6

Reviews

talltchr The Commute, like Darren Aronofsky's 2008 film The Wrestler, contrasts a wrestler's public and private persona. However, this combatant is not tragic or self destructive. Most affecting for me is his voice when he growls and threatens during his news conferences as opposed to when he speaks softly to his wife and little daughter. I came away liking Matthew Bloom very much and hoping he finds a different career before long. The film has some shots of Bloom walking through the desert, apparently to give his Commute a symbolic dimension, but I think the scenes of him and his family sitting on the sofa say it all. The film was entered in the Lake Arrowhead Film Festival in 2011 and I think it's fair to say it was very well received.