Exceptional

Rating: Null/10 (2 April 2005)

This is the greatest movie I saw this year. So many levels, so many layers, so many metaphors. It's a religious film, it's a story about secret of success: strong body, strong spirit and unlimited faith. This film is all about faith.
Each character acts in two levels: human and divine:
Scrap::: Represents the God who loves, suffers, but who cannot get involved. For second time in his life (as far as I know), Freeman played God. And he was awarded for this exceptional act.
Dunn::: Represents Holly Spirit, divine component of Maggie-Dunn symbiosis. Dunn is Scrap's boss, "Free Will" allows him to be God's boss. God "cannot mess with Free Will" (Bruce Allmighty). All he could do was to make Maggie and Dunn met and join to the fight of their life.
Maggie::: At beginning she was human. Then, she surrenders herself to Dunn, to Holly Spirit in a challenge of faith. Now she become symbol of Christ, the symbol of supreme self-sacrifice, the symbol of our maximum capacity.
Priest::: Teaches a cold faith, a faith without understanding of human spirit, a faith built by general rules, not by love.
Danger::: That's the ones who only dreams and who punch air because they're afraid to fight. They are the ones who will "never have the chance".
Manager::: The temptation. God allows Evil to tempt Christ, it allows him to prove his faith.
Family::: They are the lost ones. The ones who don't have a holly spirit, and Maggie has to fight herself with them, she cannot allow her spirit to be affected by such low feelings and emotions (Dunn waits on hospital hall).
Boxing::: Is the faith. The fight itself, it the positive fight in life: holly spirit get involved. Unlike fight with family where the spirit will loose his grandeur if he'll be part of that.
Dunn's daughter::: Represents atheist, they don't want to know and don't want to hear. They refuses his love, they refuses his messages. At the end, God itself(Morgan) does the last try to claim her into "his kingdom".
The Accident::: Unfair Events which happens to perfect people. Crucifixion. At beginning, Dunn accuses Morgan. The Spirit accuses God and tries to get a logical explanation. That's last but one Christ's fight. The fight with the Creator.
The Suicide::: Dunn, tried to find the answer in Church, but the impersonal advices cannot offer him any. The solution comes when he met Scrap: when Spirit made peace with God. Maggie's flight was stopped by that accident, but her spirit was still powerful. Keeping in mind that boxing was her faith, an absolute faith, nothing else could replace that (ie. school). The only obstacle to the absolute faith was her imperfect body, and they had to get rid of that component. God approved that as a way of evolution, not as an end. The spirit released the body and they both found peace.
Why people die happy at 80 years ? Because they have children, grandchildren and they are happy about what they did in life. Most people believes in something: in God, in family, in box. Maggie believed in box, she touched the perfection and she had the right to die happy. I don't think is about Euthanasia, and it's not about Spinal Cord Injury. It's about a spirit who made peace with himself, with his body and with his Creator.
People have the right to die with dignity, but, first, they have to grow as much as possible and beyond that. They shouldn't abandon the fight, their spirit shouldn't loose. They should reach the absolute level, they should have the conversation with God and, if they all agree, they are ready to leave this world.
P.S. Sorry for poor English, it's not my mother tongue