Million Dollar Baby
Million Dollar Baby, Clint Eastwood’s latest movie as a director has been getting more and more positive reviews recently and it is even better than Mystic River. At first glance, the film looks like another boxing-movie cliché. However, Eastwood has succeeded in creating a compelling and moving story about the intricate world of human relationships, the price of success and the realization of dreams. The movie explores many different subject matters. Million Dollar Baby is about friendship and respect. It is about love and it is about dreams.
The main theme of the movie is the boxing career of Maggie Fitzgerald (played by Hilary Swank) - a 30-year old waitress who lives alone and barely gets by. However, she
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There is nothing ordinary in Frankie’s world, now inhabited by Eddie and Maggie. Frankie has lost his daughter’s respect and is trying to get it back. Eddie, an ex-boxing champion who has lost his eye in his final match, is now living in the gym. Maggie is maniacally obsessed with becoming a boxing champion. In a way, these diverse and complex characters are made for each other. Frankie and Maggie need one another. She seeks a mentor and trainer and he needs a person to care for in order to overcome the loss of his daughter. Eddie is there to balance the fragile relationship between Maggie and Frankie. These intricate relationships allow Clint Eastwood to treat matters of love, respect, and success insightfully and thoroughly. The main subject of the movie is the relationship between Frankie and Maggie and the tough decisions, which Frankie makes so that Maggie can fulfill her dream. As the audience sees it, it is not always easy to make the right decision. Sometimes they are so obscure and controversial that one really can’t decide what to do and which way is right. And, it becomes even more complicated when one’s decision affects not only him or her, but also a person he or she loves and cares for. In this sense, Million Dollar Baby is really about the sacrifices that people sometimes make in order to achieve success, fulfill their dreams, or care for their loved ones.
The film opens on modern-day Louisiana and tells the story of a circle of friends on the wedding day of Shelby Eatenton (Julia Roberts) daughter of M'lynn Eatenton (Sally Field). Shelby suffers from type one diabetes.
In the book Million Dollar Throw it is certain that the best friend of main character Nate Brodie is Abby McCall. Abby is the best friend because she has many character traits that make her that. For example, she supports Nate in everything. She attends all of Nate’s football games, and is there whenever he needs someone to talk to. On page 53, it says “... more perfect was if his dad had been able to be here. But at least his mom was here and had picked up Abby on the way.” Abby comes to all of his games despite her worsening eyesight and eventual blindness. But she still comes, even though she is risking her own self. As you can see, these traits make Abby his best friend.
The movie centered on Katie Morosky (Barbra Streisand) and Hubbell Gardiner(Robert Redford) who were passionate lover irrespective of their differences in political views and ideologies. Katie Morosky happens to be a student with high level of political radicalism and very dogmatic about her political views. However, she hopelessly falls for Hubbell Gardiner who is a
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It is about a woman who drops out of medical school after her husband has been sentenced to eight years in prison. While she turns all of her attention to his well being while incarcerated, she also goes on a journey of self-discovery. The film went on to be acquired by AFFRM and Participant Media at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. While at Sundance, it played in the U.S. Dramatic Competition and won the Best Director award for DuVernay, the first African American woman to ever win. It also went on to be nominated and win many awards at other festivals. The film had a budget of $200,00 and a total domestic gross of $236,806.
The film pointed out a lot of subject matter that greatly affects our lives and these are as follows being a Good Samaritan, determination in reaching our goals and dreams, expression of once self, making decisions in the path we take, the different perception of different individuals to a certain subject, our judgement in the life of others, the impact of different exercises/evaluation concerning a person’s multiple intelligence to how he copes with life, and so much more. The Good Samaritan in the film was depicted by Leigh Anne. She portrayed that even in her elite kind of living, she still managed to offer a home for a young man who she had not known except for the fact that she was a friend of her son SJ, although she was a
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Million Dollar Baby, released in 20014, is a film directed by Clint Eastwood. He also stars as one of the main characters by the name of Frankie Dunn. The film also stars Hillary Swank as Maggie and Morgan Freeman as Eddie Dupris. This film is categorized as a sports drama and explores a variety of issues. However, one of the moral dilemmas that come up strongly in this film is euthanasia. Although it comes up towards the end of the film, it has a huge impact on how one perceives the whole film. Euthanasia continues to be a moral dilemma for many people, especially Christians. This is because it covers the very important issue of life and death. Though legal in some countries and several states in the United States, it is still a hot topic
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