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Lots of people have said 'I won't see a movie that...' and so forth. The Freeman character may think what Eastwood did was noble but that doesn't make it so. Fictional characters aren't always right. For example, I think Nick from The Great Gatsby is a callow jerk. He's the narrator. I still love the novel.

Look I really don't have an inclination to defend a movie I wasn't crazy about. It's just the idea of 'immoral art' and what that notion leads to that I dislike. You don't have to agree with the moral vision of a work of art to appreciate it.

Lots of people have said 'I won't see a movie that...' and so forth.

And they said that because people they trust did see the movie. "You didn't see the movie" is a specious argument.

The Freeman character may think what Eastwood did was noble but that doesn't make it so.

But you said the movie didn't put the euthansia in a positive light, and the last word is a character making a positive comment about it. Is the Freeman character portrayed in the rest of the movie as an immoral person?

It's just the idea of 'immoral art' and what that notion leads to that I dislike. You don't have to agree with the moral vision of a work of art to appreciate it.

As I pointed out to another MDB fan earlier in the thread, Uncle Tom's Cabin was a work of art, too. These things have implications. It's amazing to me when people talk about art but never consider how civilizations are shaped by their art and the stories they tell.

Look I really don't have an inclination to defend a movie I wasn't crazy about.

Then next time don't have an inclination to dismiss people who have formed a different opinion.