If NewsMax keeps this up, they'll soon overtake WorldNetDaily as the "National Enquirer" of the right.
I've seen MDB and I thought it was a great flick. I don't understand the controversy.
>>I don't understand the controversy.<<
ost something like:
"I believe I have the right to control my body and when I want to exit this earth"
and see the flames come at you.
This is turning into "The Alamo" all over again (Perfectly good movie that seemed to be universally liked by the FReepers that saw it, that was the recipient of a virulent smear campaign by assorted sources on the Right, including some who never saw the movie.)
Do you agree? Do you think this is a heroic thing to do?
I would think placing one's life in jeopardy to save another is heroic.
But now killing the other person is heroic -- according to the Hollywood propaganda machine.
The dark ages are coming back, mark my words.
It's simply as stated in the article, which has that much right. The plot of Eastwood's film has the anti-heroine, the devil-in-a-dress, not only pleading for death, but attempting suicide as a quadrapalegic, by chewing out her tongue whenever she could. Bed sores apparently caused the loss of her leg. And she had 'seen it all', as it were, and couldn't bear the thought of living crippled in such a horrible fashion. So Clint kills her - the ultimate destiny of the man with no name, perhaps, and then in such utter shame apparently slinks away into the shadows without so much as a goodbye to his closest friends.
There is a clear message in the film. And that is that there is no hope following crippling injury or disease. Abandon all hope. There is no God. There is no soul. Just end it all. Give a bit of lip service to getting better, sure. But, basically, when the small talk ends - end it all.
And people object to that in a movie, and that being promoted in a movie. Certainly, if you can't understand people's objection to propaganda, to Goebbels, to this, then nothing makes sense to you. But to most people, and those like myself, the objection is only human decency, at the very least.