Over glorified euthanasia

Rating: 1/10 (3 June 2007)

Summary: If life is letting you down, end it.
First off, I have a good friend that can't walk, can't talk, yet got his college degree and is close to getting married, so please don't bait me with a sad story to blindly accept an agenda. At least Johnny Got His Gun makes a much better attempt.
I feel for those that suffer disabilities of this magnitude, I really do. It's not a situation to simply dismiss. What disgusts me in this movie is the lack of fight in it. Is this girl really a boxer? Does she really understand a boxers mentality and what it means to really go a round in not only in the ring but in life? No, the punch line is 'I can't answer the bell, I'm staying on the mat, count me out'. I'm a quitter and there is no hope.
No only does she give up but of all people ... her trainer???? Clint Eastwood is portrayed as her corner man and coach, but can not so much as offer anything of substance to encourage her to fight. He even is the one to give her the final shot... Hey how so true blood, sweat, and tears in the ring and outside of the ring with her? Does he have nothing to offer her outside of a gym or a ring? No he doesn't he simply concedes and says goodbye.
I guess when people truly believe an agenda, it doesn't matter how weak the characters are, or how weak the characters CHARACTER is, it's all good and it's all truth, so much as it supports one agenda.
Life is far more precious that this movies makes it out to be. It is worth the fight to get in the trenches with the downcast and depressed to instill in them hope. That is why the Shawshank Redemption is a classic and this is not. This movie only breeds nihilism and death, the LAST thing that those in a wheelchair or on their deathbed need. That I speak in defense of those that do suffer and are looking for hope, not a needle.