To paraphrase Herb Kunze, people are usually shocked to discover that I am a pro wrestling fan. But whether you love or hate North America's oldest surviving performance genre, you will learn something from director Paul Jay's documentary Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows. It can easily be called the most importance work about the pro wrestling of the 1990s. It is an exceptional documentary that follows wrestler Bret "Hitman" Hart during his last few months within the WWF, his home for fifteen years, and the blurry line between real and fictional heroism. The great strength of Paul Jay's documentary is its ability to legitimize wrestling as a real art form, while at the same time exposing its century-old culture of sleaze and manipulation.