[bdeaner]

I respectfully disagree with you that "Million Dollar Baby," as a film, is deceitful. If you watch carefully and read the subtext of the film, the ending is telegraphed from the very beginning. There is tons of foreshadowing.

Perhaps you can blame the marketers for giving the public a false image of the film, but the film itself doesn't mislead the viewer, in my opinion. I didn't know about the ending, but I predicted it within the first 20 minutes of the film.

Don't get me wrong. As I said in a prior post, I disagree with the implied endorsement of assistant suicide. But the film can also be read as an indictment of the absurd brutality of violent sports.

[Andy from Beaverton]

You are right, the deceit is all in the marketing of this film. Nothing else.