I say ruin the plot. Why have people see this tripe?
I say ruin the plot. Why have people see this tripe?
In a society where people believe they have a constitutional right to kill a baby simply because it is inconvenient to let it live, how could one expect any life to have value?
What can you expect from a society that thinks it is their right to get wasted and then go kill some innocent women and children with their automobile at the rate of some 50 a day in the US.
The most incredible irony of all--a paralyzed person who can communicate can ask to have feeding tubes removed...I don't plan to see this movie, but is this point ever presented?
I don't know how many other FReepers feel this way, but I would prefer that you link to the printer friendly version of an article when available, so that I don't have to endure the graphical gewgaws.
Just a thought. Thanks.
Having failed to convince the public that killing babies in the womb is courageous and compassionate, American devotees of the Culture of Death have now trained their propaganda guns on the elderly and the disabled. What Jane Wilson called an "unsettling turn" in Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" is in fact a cinematic endorsement of euthanasia.Last month the National Spinal Cord Injury Association accused Eastwood of a "disability vendetta," describing the last scene of his film as a "brilliantly executed attack on life after a spinal cord injury." The group's chief executive said Eastwood was using the "power of fame and film to perpetuate his view that the lives of people with disabilities are not worth living." The disability-rights group Not Yet Dead has picketed "Million Dollar Baby" because, as one of its reviewers argued, the film "plays out killing as a romantic fantasy and gives emotional life to the `better dead than disabled' mindset."
As the USCCB review of the film indicates, because of the artistic power of the film "our sympathies and humane inclinations may argue in favor of such misguided compassion, but our Catholic faith prohibits us from getting around the fact that, in this case, the best-intended ends cannot justify the chosen means: the taking of a life."
It hardly seems coincidental that such a film is coming out at the same time self-styled progressives are demanding that the state of California lift its ban on doctor-assisted suicide. As the Terri Schiavo case so sadly illustrates, the Catholic Church is one of the few institutions in this country willing to take a stand for those whose lives depend entirely on the care of others.
Jane Wilson noted with approval that the Hollywood elite loved "Million Dollar Baby." She did not mention that this is the same elite that rejected "The Passion of the Christ" as overly violent and propagandistic. Not did she point out that our bishops have given "Million Dollar Baby" a rating of O - Morally Offensive. I think Catholic readers have a right to expect greater moral clarity in the archdiocesan paper, even in the film reviews.
On a somewhat more disturbing note, what in the blue hell is Hollywood thinking with these plot lines? In a recent film Colin Farrell is seen kissing a 12 year old girl. Also in a recent film Nicole Kidman is in a nude/sensual bath scene with a 12 year old boy. Noted director Brian DePalma is currently (reportedly) searching for "a young looking actress (the younger the better) who has no problem doing a lesbian type scene."
The news of late is rife with stories of teachers engaging in sexual misconduct and abuse with their students. Are we on the road to accepting adult- child sex as a matter of course? Homosexuality went from abhorred to accepted to adored, and that is between consenting adults. What stage is pedophilia currently resting on? NAMBLA must be salivating at the possibilities.
I guess "Baby" is one movie that I won't pay any money to see, and forget the DVD.
Million Dollar Baby should win the Acadamy Award for Best Picture, although it won't be a classic played in 100 years like The Passion of the Christ will be.
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It's a movie!
Suicide is an issue. It is reality. I do not fault anyone for making a movie that helps people face reality. Assisted suicide is something else. It is murder with the murderer looking for a pass because he really thought he was helping someone.
Is this something we as a society want to permit?
We just got back from seeing the Will Smith movie Hitch. I need to warn people that the movie deals with the controversial issue of "an old woman pretending to choke on a grape".
This is important because the movie was not marketed as a movie that deals with "old women choking".
There is a slippery slope here, first the old women pretend to choke and the next thing you know they are on the crack and robbing banks.