[StACase]

So every film is laden with a message?

Of course not

No film is made simply for enjoyment?

Of course there are films made for sheer enjoyment and escapism

What, may I ask, is the message in School of Rock? Pirates of the Carribean? This film is made for enjoyment, and despite being very dark the major message is fairly uplifting.

I did see "Pirates" There wasn't any message. It was OK

I'm not sure where the line is drawn for a film becoming propaganda,

No kidding?

but I do know that this film is far from crossing it.

You're blind!

I guess Half Baked is a propaganda film, but then the only downside it shows to smoking weed is that you might go to jail.

Didn't see it

Million Dollar Baby declares that there are very real emotional consequences for those left behind, and I think shows that at the end as well.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

I think you are hopelessly biased against Hollywood and don't think they can do anything positive in your mind.

Hollywood is as far as art is concerned is where it's at. Too bad their message is one sided.

It isn't anti-welfare it is anti-South. I saw it the other way around, but clarly we disagree about almost every aspect of this film.

You can't get past the storyline to try and understand that real people wrote it and produced it for a reason.

[Mr. Blonde]

Excuse me for watching the movie and thinking it stands alone as entertainment and its message is little more than the traditional movie message.

I looked up the writer of the original story. It appears that he is very nearly Eastwoods character. I doubt a 69 year old man who has been in boxing for his entire life really cares too much about euthanasia. It does appear that he does care about boxing though, and he wanted to tell a good story with boxing involved. The producers didn't seem to have a severe liberal bent in the movies they produced. Several had a close working relationship with Eastwood who is also a producer as well as a conservative.