Million Dollar Baby

As I promised, here is a post to the movie that took away so many of the Oscar honours this time.

Firstly, as you start watching the movie, you start realizing that this movie is certainly one that you could call "run of the mill". It is different from the very start. I was getting this feeling that either this movie will be very good or very bad. It might either elevate itself and the viewer or just crash to the floor like a piece of crystal, shattered and destroyed. Luckily it was not the second case and thus, Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a good movie at hand. Ofcourse, by the time you are watching the end of the movie, you are not feeling a wee bit happy that this movie is so good, but feeling that gut-wrenching sensation in your stomach. I was left wondering if I could watch the movie once more. Maybe not, maybe only after some time. Not now certainly. Its just too sad and tragic for me to sit through it again and feel all the pain and suffering and desperation that the movie conveys.

I shall try not to include any spoilers here, so let me just stick to what I felt about the movie and not what the movie is about.

Hillary Swank - a wonderful actresses. She is not the one, I would call "HOT", but then beauty and acting ability have seldom to do anything with each other. But the entertainment industry does certainly have a lot to do with each other. One can debate which part is more important. I shall not get into that now. She has done a wonderful job in this movie, she looks so natural in the role that she plays.

Clint Eastwood - champion of earlier times, is still going strong. He is still so young at heart. How many people are coming out with the best in them at this age? I am simply just amazed at the energy of this man at this age. I wonder if I can even muster the courage to do something big and unique at my age now. Maybe not. Not only has he been active as a director, but here he is on the screen playing a wonderful character. His dialogue delivery is so unique and characteristic. What hit me most was when he walked on stage to accept his Oscar, there was hardly any difference between him then and the character he played in the movie.

This movie is just by and for these two characters. Morgan Freeman does provide some counter viewpoints in the movie and is generally a silent character, but then he is so good that his silence is more powerful.

It is a wonderful movie all together. But as I said, I don't know if I can watch a movie like that everyday. No, I can't. I prefer and love movies, which at the end of everything still leaves you with some hope. This one, didn't leave me with any.