Disappointed and betrayed

Rating: Null/10 (14 February 2005)

I loved Million Dollar Baby almost all the way through. However, when the assisted suicide question came up I was disappointed and felt betrayed. What about Chris Reeve?? What he did in the years after his accident was truly remarkable and impressive( even for a mobile human.) Maggie Fitzgerald didn't strike me as a quitter for most of the movie, so why now? Suicide is a frequent and temporary state of mind for most of us at times. And the loss of the leg while dramatic and painful, whoopee, she had already lost her whole body. But she still had a great mind and spirit. I thought the going to college idea was what Maggie would want to do. Maggie, the original, the boxer, would have gone on to further greatness in her own way. Quadreplegia may be rotten, but dead is dead! Having lost a few loved ones to natural and self inflicted causes, I can say unequivocally there is a big difference. The suicide didn't fit Maggie's earlier "never say die" attitude. Sorry, CLint, but that ruined the movie for me.