A very good work.

Rating: 8/10 (24 October 2005)

In general, I like Clint Eastwood's films. Million dollar baby is a sincere and realistic work. There is a small, strange story with two strange people. A boxing coach with such dedication and a soft soul covered by ruggedness, and a girl with such determination to become a champion. The story becomes unique with the characterizations of Dunn and Maggie. There are bad people in the story but they are not purposefully exposed to be 'villainous'. Her mom and sister were not that much loving as a normal poor family with a bad/dead daddy and living in bad surroundings expect to be.
The main good thing is the story line and the script; both of them with sincerity and dedication. Next ones are the acting, music and photography and in fact direction of Clint. I wondered about Clint Eastwood's music. It was very simple. I don't know it involved any mind boggling composing of tunes. It was just plain but it was more than enough. In this modern world with readily perverted, what-the-heck kind of minds, this kind of plain good simple-natured story and characters might look odd. It did (that is why these Oscars I guess). I loved this film. It's like a perfect little short story (of two hours time though). Many criticizing comments read Morgan Freeman has nothing to play. But as I see it, Freeman adds more depth into the story. Watch it if you can go with slow-moving but strong stories.