Director: Clint Eastwood.
With: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel.
Production: Malpaso Productions, Albert S. Ruddy Productions Lakeshore Entertainment.
Distribution: 01 Distribution.
Year: 2004.
Length: 137 '.
betrayed by his most promising boxer, sottrattogli the threshold of the final consecration from a shady manager and profits, the old Frankie is perhaps to throw in the towel when the dogged determination of a stranger, who took some time to follow him like a dog looking for owner, convinces him to embark on a new sporting challenge: to train a woman, 31 year old and already reached Fasting of the most basic technical knowledge to bring to the world title. The task seems impossible, but the ring Maggie gives evidence of exceptional qualities: tenacity, humility, courage, spirit of sacrifice and understanding. Less cautious than before, and animated by the desire to make the sacrifices of the student the opportunity for a well deserved reward, Frankie arranges the meeting of life. In a step away from victory but Maggie puts a serious impropriety opponent knock-out, nailing forever a hospital bed. Paralyzed from head down and abandoned by the same family with his victories he had tried to revive, the girl you just have to love the rough coach. And for Maggie, Frankie will be making more fatherly, merciful and painful acts of love.
whether, as the Truffaut films are trains passing through the night, Million Dollar Baby is then a solid but not too modern train that takes the viewer to your destination on time and without jolts. Substance of the expert guidance of conductor who, once again and again on the old locomotive of Lumiere, gear film has come to know every tiny component. Million Dollar Baby, therefore, the same works for trivial reasons that have always made a film a good film because it tells a good story, because it tells it well, because the interpreters living in the characters. And it is the actors, in our opinion, to rule over the film making the script even beyond the limits of the metaphysical suggestions of a strange parable that reconstructs the theological conundrum that so torments Frankie Trinity all'incrinato around the posting of a coach that returns to the Father, the steadfast devotion of a daughter who goes to meet his destiny and sacrifice to the sober wisdom of a former boxer half blind as the Holy Spirit sees all and understands all. Eastwood, Swank and Freeman are three pure talent that filter inspired by very different methods, working on the first connotation of silence on the suggestions of the second word and the physical and instinctive animal-third. The meeting and the merger of such diverse approaches makes Million Dollar Baby a memorable essay by drama. As for the work instead of staging Eastwood continues to pursue the idea of \u200b\u200bessential cinema experience at a remarkably long career, happy and full of great artistic encounters. But the impression is that by the Mystic River on the resolute attitude, flat linear and the film may be incorrectly interpreted by critics as an indefinite form of classicism that cinema has never really lived, considering that the great pioneers (only post-classic) have always thought to develop innovative forms of expression and personal more that replicate or reinforce patterns already acquired. The undoubted confidence by means of the director should then hide the risk that such a film is subject: to let lapse the simplicity in style and simplicity in poverty lexical simplification. Alluding to the ease of certain narratives that took place as in the Mystic River dismiss the issue emotionally stronger than the film (here euthanasia, sexual abuse in Mystic River) and end up neglecting many aspects. Raises more questions then the Manichean stylization of the characters while assigned to the features sublime Maggie angel or the sacrificial lamb, painting hideous and grotesque indifference of his family and deformed as irredeemably evil tempers of his terrible enemy. Too dark and essentially unresolved even then it seems the troubled past of which Frankie is stingy revealing even the omniscient voice-guided Eddie that, given the humble origin, it is surprising that both properties to a depth of language. Power of the Holy Spirit who pervades all and everything (and all) manifest.
review of Alessandro Montanari
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