Million Dollar baby is about Euthanasia- BUt only if someone REALLY REALLY NEEDS IT
no one why it was hailed best movie of the year- if that's not agenda pushing I don't know what is!
It's a story that has Euthanasia in it. My Gosh.
That's like saying "Lethal Weapon" was about shooting someone 10 times - but only if they REALLY REALLY NEEDS IT.
You're being ironic with that statement, right?
Just in case you're not, I want to make sure nobody thinks that quadraplegia is a condition that makes someone REALLY REALLY NEED euthanasia.
My neighbor two blocks down the street is quadraplegic. Just out of high school, he went to work as a housepainter. Then, you guessed it, he fell off a ladder and became completely paralyzed.
He worked hard in rehab and eventually got back enough use of his hands to be able to operate his own power wheelchair.
He married and had two beautiful children -- after being paralyzed.
He ran for election to the local school board, successfully, and has held that post for several years now. He also organizes sports events for handicapped children, and brings in celebrities for fundraising for charitable groups.
Today I see him all the time, tooling around the neighborhood in his power chair. He also drives his girls to school in a specially configured van.
All the quadraplegics I've ever met are happy to be alive.
Its a travesty and a smack in the face of every person who went to see Passion that it was not nominated for best picture, that Mel Gibson was not nominated for best director, and Jim Caviezel for giving a fantastic perfomance in, I'm sorry, the most demanding role in the history of movies. The woman who played Mary deserves a supporting nod as much as the worthless, brainless starlets they usually nominate.
The one argument I heard was it was too violent: oh yeah, too violent like say, last year's winner LOTR, with arrows stabbed into people's eyes, heads, arms and legs lopped off? Point blank arrows shot into people's bodies? Or how about American Beauty, another recent winner, with underage nudity (Thora Birch was 16 when she bared her breasts on that movie) pedophilia and finally a point-blank gunshot to the head? Or how about another recent winner, Gladiator. There was some violence in that I think, oh yeah, the protagonists wife and son were raped, CRUCIFIED and burned alive. Also decapitations, disembowelings, patricide, incest, killing for sport and other various and sundry atrocities.
The difference is the Passion is violence with a purpose and with meaning. Not for gratuitous tittlilation. Much like the violence in Schindler's List, which also had full frontal nudity. But it was valid because it had MEANING. And that won best pic and Speilburg won best director. Now it seems like there is some kind of double standard at work here. I have read that the Hollywood Jewish lobby are the ones who killed Passion's chances at any major award. They hate this movie. And why? Intolerance. Ignorance. The major heroes: Jesus, St. Peter, St. Mary, Veronica, ALL JEWS! So how is it bashing Jews? I am sickened by this reaction because I truly believe most Christians have no animosity toward Jews and their religion or traditions.
Besides the fact the academy cut off its nose to spite its face. The Oscars would have had their biggest audience EVER if the Passion had been nominated. People who have never seen the Oscars, don't care, or haven't watched in years would have tuned in. But the powers that be in Hollywood would rather ignore perhaps the greatest film in the history of filmmaking before they would honor a truly pious and worthy director like Gibson. Its disgusting and there should be a HUGE outcry over this. This should not be allowed to pass.
Did you see it? DID YOU SEE THIS MOVIE? Because I just got back from the theater. It was a masterpiece. As far as an agenda? Give me a break. It's a story of two people and their choices. Pushing an agenda? BULL. BULL. And I don't understand why somebody does not have the right to die if they want to. I certainly would not want to live like the woman in this movie. If I ever found myself in this situation, I hope I have someone like the Eastwood character who respects me and loves me enough to do what I ask.