uneducated film opinion
million dollar baby
million dollar
baby
the information i gleaned
from the trailer:
- about
boxing.
- southern tailer-park
feel.
- morgan freeman says "you just
protected yourself out of a
championship".
- clint plays his
brooding self.
- ebert loved
it.
who i guessed the characters
were:
- eastwood is an ex-pro boxer and
ex-con.
- hilary swank is a driven
ex-hick who has all but abandoned her abusive
family.
- morgan freeman reprises his
role from Shawshank and plays the ex-cellmate of
eastwood.
what i guessed would
happen:
- swank, with nothing to lose,
comes to eastwood, who is reknown for his ability to train male champions, to
train to become the next.
- eastwood
rejects; he doesn't train girls.
- swank
perseveres, it is revealed Eastwood is
familyless.
- eastwood, in frustration,
agrees to take her on to be champion.
-
in the process of taking her to become champion, they fall in love: eastwood has
not felt love since his family abandoned him when he went to
jail.
- eastwood, on the verge of
success with swank, backs off.
- an
argument ensues, why is he backing
off?
- it is revealed that when he was
just about to break, he was arrested for molesting his daughter; he is a
pedophile.
- eastwood is a pedophile
because his father forced him to train at an early age, suppressing his sexual
habits. boxing was an out for his testosterone overload. but this is not
revealed to swank
- swank, used to the
abusive mindset, does not care but still loves
him.
- love
scene
- next morning, as she is about to
leave for a series of matches, he realizes it was a mistake. he
leaves.
- she, furious, goes on her
tour.
- three months into the tour,
swank realizes she has not had her time of the month.
- she contacts eastwood, who has been
watching her from afar.
- she is
pregnant, on the virge of the title
fight.
- therefore, million dollar baby
refers not to swank, but to swank's unborn child that could cost her the
championship.
- therefore, eastwood must
struggle with the desire for the daughter he never had vs. wanting a champion /
afraid of succumbing to molesting the child or raising an f-ed up kid, in light
of his handling of affairs with
swank.
the
ending...
- eastwood decides he wants to
have the baby in order to redeem himself as a
human.
- it is revealed that swank knew
that eastwood was a pedophile, knew his history of seduction, and seduced him in
order to become pregnant.
- swank
carries the baby through the championship, allowing it to take blows for her in
the abdomen.
- the baby is
aborted
- swank reveals this was her
plans all along : "it's only when you lose everything that you can gain
anything."
end.
Posted: Friday - January 14, 2005 at
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