And since she can’t fight-she can’t even move-the proverbial “her life isn’t worth living” message is hammered home. Maggie is paralyzed, a quadriplegic who loses a leg to infection – of sound mind, but almost a vegetable.
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She hits her head so hard on the stool in the corner of the ring, she’s knocked unconscious.Īnd that’s where we learn what this movie is really about. Maggie, on the verge of winning the fight, gets blindsided and knocked-out cold.
Maggie’s so good she’s in the Women’s Welterweight championship fight in Vegas with a million-dollar pot to split. Soon, she’s winning fights all over the place, with instant knock-outs, and Frank and Maggie develop a surrogate-father/daughter relationship. Besides, at 31, she’s too old to become a great boxer.īut then, he loses his champion boxer to another boxing manager, and he takes Maggie on. I’m sure you’ll find someone else to train you,” he tells her. “Women boxing-that’s a freak show, and freaks are in. At first, he resists, saying he doesn’t train girls. “Baby” begins with the hillbilly Maggie trying to learn boxing and get gym-owner/trainer/manager Frankie (Eastwood) to train her. Movie critics-most of whom are complicit in this deception-only hint at this “unexpected, surprise twist.” Trash background and become women’s Welterweight champion of the world.īut they’ve been defrauded, manipulated into what appears to be “The Champ” with estrogen, but is really a promotional ad for the Netherland’s euthanasia policy. For roughly the first half, viewers are tricked – thinking they are watching a movie about a champion boxer in the making, who just happens to be female.Įven those who find women’s sports to be freakish sideshows of little interest, are rooting for Maggie Fitzgerald (Hillary Swank) to overcome her trailer. It features legendary Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood, as its director and star. “Million Dollar Baby” will win the Oscar because it supports killing the handicapped, literally putting their lights out. If you want to know the truth and save your ten bucks, keep reading. If you plan to see the movie and don’t want to read a spoiler, stop here. “Baby”-which has critics gushing all over each other-is a two-hour, twenty-minute exercise in subtle and then not-so-subtle left-wing diatribe.
That’s just the cover story to suck movie-goers in for a nefarious message. What it’s really about, has nothing to do with Rocky Balboa or boxing. Think “Baby” is about Rocky in a sports-bra-as it’s being marketed? You’ve fallen for the “Million Dollar” lie. But because it’s Hollywood’s best political propaganda of the year. “Million Dollar Baby” will win the Academy Awards. In the final scene, the camera pans through the window of Ida's diner, showing Frankie seated at the counter, possibly eating a piece of homemade lemon meringue pie.“Million Dollar Baby’s” Multi-Million Dollar Rip-Off No matter where he is, I thought you should know what kind of man your father really was. I just hope he went someplace where he could find a little peace, a place set in the cedars and oak trees, somewhere between nowhere and goodbye, but that's probably wishful thinking. I'd hope he'd gone to find you and ask you one more time to forgive him, but maybe he didn't have anything left in his heart. Frankie didn't leave a note and nobody knew where he went.
He ends the letter with the following: I went back to the gym and waited, figuring he'd turn up sooner or later and that's when a ghost came through the door. It is then revealed that the story, which has been narrated by Scrap since the beginning, is actually a letter to Frankie's daughter. O'Byrne), with Scrap, and with his own conscience, Frankie sneaks into the hospital late at night, unhitches Maggie's respirator, and euthanizes her with a large injection of adrenalin into her IV. After speaking with Father Jorvak ( Brían F. Frankie refuses, so she bites off her own tongue and nearly bleeds to death before the doctors can get it sewed up. When the doctors amputate one of her legs, she asks Frankie to do for her what her daddy did for her dog Axel. Maggie begins to develop bed sores on her arms and legs.