I'm glad to hear you liked the film. I'm surprised at how many freepers are upset about this.
I just saw the film this past weekend on a whim. I thought it was just about boxing and wanted to see why it was so critically acclaimed.
I'm not a big fan of women's boxing but I was captivated by the fight scenes and I am so impressed with Hillary Swank and her preparation and performance in this film. I'm a big Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman fan and thought they performed brilliantly. The film was so subtle but made you care so much for the characters.
Do we boycott "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" because Jack Nicholson is smothered after his lobotomy? This film does not "glorify" euthanasia and there is a strong anti-euthanasia position taken by the priest in the film.
The majority of the film is about triumph--for the boxer and the trainer.
I never felt like an agenda was being pushed.
For exactly the same reason that MDB stinks.
We're supposed to believe that the regal Indian's despicable pillow-over-Jack's-face, "Me God; You ain't," is to be applauded; that somehow death is preferable to life. That's pure satanism. And it teaches us that when the world does something stupid, it's better to give up and kill ourselves than fight back.
Hmmm... Wonder who profits from that stance?
Are you aware that in that movie Nicholson is a twice confessed and convicted rapist who declares the women "had it coming?" Everybody forgets that.
And the sophomoric idea that violent, mentally-handicapped patients are somehow better off without their medications is straight out of some 14-year-old's term paper.
Have you ever been to a real mental institution, like Camarillo is California. I have a friend who loved this movie until they visited Camarillo. They came back thinking Nurse Ratched got a raw deal.
Hollywood loves to direct more than films. They believe it's their duty to raise middle America out of its stultified ignorance and shove its face into the real world.
As if Hollywood would know the real world if it fell on them. (Which sounds like a great pitch to me.)