Medical errors at end spoiled movie

Rating: 4/10 (24 February 2006)

I am still in mourning about the fact that this movie won best picture. There was very little special about the movie as a whole, the first half was like every other boxing movie, the grizzled old trainer, the downtrodden young hopefuls, the grungy low-rent gym, YAWN. At the end, the medical errors were so ridiculous, I just couldn't believe that this movie was made. It is IMPOSSIBLE to talk while on a ventilator, first of all. I know that it would have spoiled to flow of the screenplay, but you can't just suspend rules of physics to cater to your script. Second, when someone is on life-support, there are monitors at the nursing station, and someone would have come running immediately when the machine was turned off, barring gross negligence on the part of the medical staff. It would be impossible for someone to turn off life support and let someone die and just walk out unnoticed like he did. Even with out these things, I found nothing to recommend this movie, and certainly did not agree with its best picture nomination or award.