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Eastwood and Co. create a masterpiece about the courses their lives take on the dreams and the value of love and friendship. A film that must necessarily be seen by everyone, because it brings a great life lesson to teach us.
Most movies that have a backdrop as boxing is a real challenge for those who rule. After his Scorsese and Raging Bull (icon masterpiece of the genre) many great filmmakers have had difficulty in dealing with the matter. What about a film whose protagonist is not just a boxer but also a woman? Perhaps because of that most people have not given much attention to Golden Boy, one of the most honorable of Clint Eastwood. It happens that the girl Eastwood gold is 24 karat, or pure gold, high quality, resulting in a beautiful portrait film about guilt and friendship, dreams, finally made a human drama with great depth and sensitivity .
For starters "Million Dollar Baby" is not literally a movie about boxing. Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) is not just an aspiring female boxer, but a hillbilly waitress whose dream is to become a fighter of great sucesso.Apos address the veteran ex-boxer and now coach, Frankie (Eastwood), she asks him what the chances of being coached by him. "I do not train girls," he says, acidly. Turns away, go away, and not think about it anymore. But Maggie will not give up. Tuition up to the backyard gym built by Frankie, paid six months earlier, and begins to strike sandbags for hours (even has a funny phrase uttered by Freeman about her break your wrists).
Maggie is an example of determination and strength that it takes to see Frankie, because he is in trouble with a fighter who can fight for the championship. Anyway, the coach does not feel comfortable with Maggie under any circumstances, and has many reasons for this, because it is sexist and has a difficult relationship with his daughter, and not explained in the film, nor that precisa.Não is directly connected to the relationship of Frankie and Maggie, the more the script leaves it open to the public perceives by its own will, without any link to explain isso.O same can be said of his relationship with Scrap (Freeman).
Following the saying "soft water hits the hardest rock that sticks up," Maggie insisted so much that eventually accepts Frankie to train her, on condition that it passes into the hands of a businessman once it reaches a professional level, which he estimates that will occur in four years. It's the beginning of a great friendship, and one of the many exciting moments that "Million Dollar Baby" offers. This is the kind of movie about which little comment, the minimum possible is something that encourages the viewer. "Million Dollar Baby" follows directions completely unexpected, and gives the audience moving lessons about determination, willpower and friendship.
The screenplay by Paul Haggis is a complete gold mine. The text teaches the viewer far refused, at the same time, deliver these lessons already chewed. Frankie's hesitation to allow their pupils to face opponents of great quality, for example, can take root in the lasting friendship between the coach and Scrap (Morgan Freeman), an ex-boxer who looks after the gym and tells the attentive spectator filme.O will trace these relationships, which reveal much about the personality of each character. The plot is full of small details that enrich the plot, give depth to the characters and involve the audience actively in the interpretation of the film. How many movies can do that?
"Million Dollar Baby" is also a movie actor. Hilary Swank, who won an Oscar in 1999 for Boys Do not Cry shows that it is an extraordinary actress. Notice how his technique in boxing improves in the course of the struggles that the film shows. Notice the perfect country accent, look determined, almost without blinking, which illustrates the inner strength of her character. Maggie is a fascinating woman, Clint Eastwood that opens slowly and never fully naked. The mystery that the director knows his characters to print is simply flawless, perfect. We do not know too much and not too little about them. We know the exact measurement.
We must not forget that especially "Million Dollar Baby" is a melodrama assumed. And, by definition, the melodrama is a genre that works with the exaggeration of some dramatic aspects that seldom happen. "Million Dollar Baby" does not attempt to reproduce reality accurately. She just wants good cinema.
The film goes quiet, has its own rhythm, and a solid narrative structure that never allows silly moments. "Million Dollar Baby" requires the viewer's full attention, because even small scenes can hide transition moments that will have repercussions later in the narrative. But of course there is genuinely thrilling sequences. At one point, after visiting the hostile mother, Maggie is in the car with Frankie, and complains of loneliness. "I got nobody but you, Frankie," Maggie may say so. "You have me. Until there is a good businessman, of course, "laughed the old coach. This is a dialogue that celebrates the true friendship. How not to get excited about these things?
The fact is that "Million Dollar Baby" is a continuation of a great stage director Clint Eastwood, a phase that has already given us the fabulous "Mystic River," one of the best long launched in 2003. For his film about boxing, Eastwood also composed the soundtrack (mild and beautiful, all acoustic), produced and acted. "Million Dollar Baby" over the U.S. hailed by critics as the best film of Clint. It is difficult to say this with conviction because the director has other large works capable of competing with this movie ("Unforgiven"). But there is no doubt that "Million Dollar Baby" is the work of a sensitive director, an author of a genuine and mastering the human psyche to go Hollywood.
In one of the final scenes where Frankie apologizes to Scrap, by having him guilty of what happened to Maggie, one phrase comes up and shows the situation arises when vivida.Nesse a reflection that ends up touching the heart (very rare thing these days today) and thought that the espectador.A many people die every day in various places in the world, how many more of them can realize their dreams and be happy? Frankie gave it to Maggie in one way or the other side.The this moment that we realize that life is indeed a box of surprises, and we can not predict what will acontecer.Por us so we have to chase our dreams, guts and courage, and indirectly we can relate this as a way of Frankie redeem himself with his daughter.
Conclusion, Million Dollar Baby and much more than drama about the life and destiny and an unparalleled work, and that without a doubt one of the most important and impressive than last year and should be seen and followed by others by example.
