Million Dollar Baby

This is a blog for all you people who thought cider House Rules was a love story.

Right now my rage can only be contained because I'm too busy stressing out about finding car insurance to track down the Academy Awards people and beat them to death with their own shoes. I don't know how they sleep at night.

I was sitting at a table sharing a meal with my parents and an other couple. The wife in this couple brought up that she and her husband had gone to see the movie Million Dollar Baby. In case you didn't know... Million Dollar Baby won "Best Picture" "Best Director" (Clint Eastwood) "Best Actress" (Hillary Swank) and "Best Supporting Actor" (Clint Eastwood). The husband of this couple said, "Yeah, that was a great movie." My mother leans in, "Wait, do you know what that movie is about?" He responds, "Yeah, its about boxing!"

Million Dollar Baby is NOT ABOUT BOXING! It's about euthanasia. It is about a young woman who begins her life as trailer trash. She begins to box and consequently travels the world, makes lots of money, and almost be comes the Women's World Champion. However, in her last match she is pushed and breaks her neck. She is paralyzed from the neck down and is on a ventilator and feeding tube (like Christopher Reeves). She faces life as handicapped and doesn't like it very much.

So she tells Clint Eastwood (her coach) a very touching story about her father shooting her lame dog. Then, she asks Eastwood to kill her. He does. Handicapped people across the world are outraged... no one cares... Hollywood cheers it as the Best Picture Of The Year. Million Dollar Baby did not gross much at the box office and was protested by every handicap organization in the world.

Just to put this into perspective for you... The Passion of the Christ was the top grossing movie at the box office, the actors had to learn a dead language, and it arguably was the most influential movie of our time but it was officially ignored by the academy because it was too controversial.

I wonder what our country views as "controversial." A few years ago the movie The cider House Rules one best picture. It was a love story about abortion being okay.

What is going on?