Reply #355: Two different things. Cartoons and MDB. [View All]

Million Dollar Baby is NOT a cartoonish, violent movie for children.

It's violent. It's very well made and very artistic. All the performances were quite good.

However, I cannot give a damn about a woman who beats up and injures other people for money, even though it requires discipline and ambition. I don't think it's a sport. If she was training for a sport where she did NOT cause injuries, I might be able to relate to it.

The starting premise of identification with the main character is what stopped me. I refuse to identify with any kind of violence or abusive characters. I refuse to watch the beating and the bruises and the blood spurting. I think it has no more dignity than dogfighting.

Usually in movies women are stalked, beaten, tortured or killed. Million Dollar Baby was probably hailed because the woman was asserting herself and doing what she wanted to do.
I don't think a woman who wants to beat up other women in the ring is a good role model or a feminist.

So there. :eyes: