tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12004601.post113444347066891220..comments2023-03-25T08:22:13.556-04:00Comments on Now That It's Now: Million Dollar Baby, Two Cent EthicsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12004601.post-1156107606496597582006-08-20T17:00:00.000-04:002006-08-20T17:00:00.000-04:00Nancy, thanks for your insightful comments on the ...Nancy, thanks for your insightful comments on the film. You're right that it's hard to know Eastwood's opinions on the disabled based on this one movie, however, it is also hard to watch the movie without having at least some impression that from the film-maker's perspective, Maggie's suicide is somehow courageous or the right thing to do. I could believe more in the fallibility of the characters at that moment if they were depicted realistically, however, the style of the ending is not realism but heroic melodrama. This is an understandable choice, since if the director presented what this act actually would have looked and felt like to the characters as if they were real people and this was a real situation, it would have been sickening to watch. But this only makes the contrived emotional exchange which takes place between the characters all the worse. How can we even stand to watch a man declare his deep fatherly love for a healthy disabled young woman, and then kill her in cold blood? It baffles me that anybody could accept this as some kind of compassionate act. What if he had taken a shotgun and blown her head off? At least that would have placed us squarely in the realistic mode, and thus triggered (as it were) an honest reaction from the audience, i.e., disgust. As to your comment about what we can do to end feelings of isolation and loneliness amongst our family and friends, surely something other than kill them?weazoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05948156533505083810noreply@blogger.com