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THE BEST REVIEW SO FAR OF “MILLION DOLLAR BABY” (AND ITS AFTERMATH)

To me, Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby is just routine Hollywood product but with a much higher-than-usual schmaltz content. It’s not even worth a review.

Of course, he DOES review the film, and it’s not pretty. Then, he takes on the really important issue for our culture - what has come after….

Yet the extraordinary thing about the critical commentary on the film, including Eastwood’s own, has been the denial that the movie has any political point at all….In fact, (Maureen Dowd) is the one who appears not to understand art, since it is as stupid to say that Romeo and Juliet promotes suicide as it is to say that Million Dollar Baby does not—at least assisted suicide for the severely disabled. It’s not a point of view with which I agree, but it’s a legitimate point of view. Why doesn’t Maureen Dowd defend it?.... I can only conclude that (she) and others on the cultural left have grown so accustomed to disingenuousness in such matters that they prefer here as in so many other areas—the question of media bias, for instance—to keep up the pretense of their own political non-partisanship for the sake of the imagined extra authority it confers on their obviously partisan views.

Read the whole review….

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