MILLION DOLLAR CONTROVERSY
Little did I realize how far reaching this little attempt at blogging might become. A few days ago I received a comment from Stepjhan Drake, head f an organizatin called Not Dead Yet. It was a response to not only my own comments about the film, but my comments about the controversy about the resolution of the film. Drake writes, "Eastwood's latest probably has a whole lot less to do with his relationship to Christianity than to his relationship to people with disabilities."
Although I'm not satisfied that Eastwood's character's probems with Christianity (he seems to b e going through his own"dark night of the soul"), are adequatly developed, I don't think the film is much ABOUT people with disabilities. There may be some insensitivity here, but, Eastwood has never made a film with the thought of being politically correct. But the film is a complex portrait of a man wavering between redemption or damnation as a consequence of the choices he has made.
If nothing else, MILION DOLLAR BABY is the film most worthy of serious discussin in quite a while.
Although I'm not satisfied that Eastwood's character's probems with Christianity (he seems to b e going through his own"dark night of the soul"), are adequatly developed, I don't think the film is much ABOUT people with disabilities. There may be some insensitivity here, but, Eastwood has never made a film with the thought of being politically correct. But the film is a complex portrait of a man wavering between redemption or damnation as a consequence of the choices he has made.
If nothing else, MILION DOLLAR BABY is the film most worthy of serious discussin in quite a while.
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