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 Gladiators, pain freaks, brutes, clowns, real athletes, fake competitors: the stars of professional wrestling are all of those things. And back in the 1980s, when wrestling was reaching its cultural zenith, it almost seemed like you could divide the world between those who took wrestling to the level and those who dismissed it as a tasteless, vulgar, over-the-top joke. . However, it was never that simple. Even if you saw through the simulated nature of wrestling, you could still enjoy the theater as a cartoon show. And a lot of hardcore wrestling fans were really in on the joke. They knew, on some level, that they were watching staged hijinks, but that didn't stop them from experiencing it all as “real.”  Director: Sean Durkin Writer: Sean Durkin Stars: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson If you're wondering how that kind of cognitive dissonance works, welcome to the America that professional wrestling helped create: an America in which Donald Trump, who used prof...