Okay, NEW take on the boxing "errors"

Rating: 8/10 (24 July 2005)

Okay, after I saw this movie last night I thought it was an awesome movie, but as an avid sports fan was very disappointed in the boxing errors (as were many others on this board). The errors I speak of are- people getting punched when they are down, after the fight, etc. (basically all the cheap crap that went on, that would never happen in real boxing without the boxer being disqualified). However, after thinking about this movie over the past 24 hr.s there is one scapegoat. I was thinking back, and realized that this entire movie was through the eyes of Eastwood's daughter (who is reading the letter). The unrealistic things that happened during the boxing matches could have just been her interpretation of what she was reading. For example, Freeman's character said, "she was known as the cheapest fighter in the ring. Eastwood's daughter may not know a lot about boxing and may have taken that as throwing people down, punching people when they are down, etc. This could also explain Swank's "over the top" family that other posters were complaining about- saying that Eastwood shouldn't have been so over-dramatic with how redneck they were. All of this may have also been exaggerated by Eastwood's daughter's interpretation of what Freeman wrote in the letter. If you've read this post, what do you think? Any possible truth to this? If not, then the movie is just a bad boxing movie, and the makers should have done a better job of their homework on the boxing rules.