This is for those who saw this film...

Rating: 10/10 (31 January 2005)

I saw this film last night on Sunday January 30th 2005 and I still am depressed and devastated. I was filled with rage and sadness when the end credits started appearing. I think that alone speaks for the excellence and brilliance of the makers of this film including the writers, and the director, and the actors, so I will not spend any more time offering cliché praising comments. But I will ask one question; why? Why would Clint Eastwood make a film like this that in my opinion can beat any other tragedy ever made in history in making my heart ache? Maybe my reaction is a little too much because I am a huge fan of Hilary Swank, well all right I might even be in love with her... But, I felt the same way when I saw Mystic River and there certainly was no one in that film with whom I would say I might be in love. When I remembered Mystic River, things started making sense a little... In films like The Unforgiven, Mystic River, and Million Dollar Baby Clint Eastwood is making films that are the antithesis of standard Hollywood movie making. I certainly understand and immensely respect that! I want so much for such films to be made, because I am tired of Hollywood making the same teen movies over and over and over and it's getting ever harder to even find films to watch in a theater... But I still ask, was it still necessary to make Million Dollar Baby so intensely heartbreaking?