Million Dollar Baby should not have won best picture award

Rating: 6/10 (16 January 2006)

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I just saw Million Dollar Baby for the first time. What I don't understand is why they had Frankie had to turn off the respirator. He said, "I will turn off your air machine and you will go to sleep. I'll give you an injection and you will STAY asleep." If this had been a real life situation, turning off the respirator would have sounded an alarm in the nurse's station and brought the nurses running in to re-connect it before Frankie could have administered the adrenalin to Maggie- and he would have been hauled off by the police. It was not necessary to turn off the respirator. Turning it off would only make her start gasping for breath in time, alert the nurses and make her death more painful. The adrenalin would have killed her by itself in a few minutes and he would have had time to escape. Surely they have medical advisers. How could they make such a mistake?
I don't know much about boxing, but in real life, during a world championship bout, considering the obvious and deliberately illegal tactics used by Blue Bear during the first round, it have resulted in her disqualification. Also, Blue Bear's punch after the bell was so late and so violent it would have resulted in an immediate disqualification. Would the referee turn his back on the two fighters unless they were both in their respective corners? However, even if he didn't see the late (and ultimately fatal) punch, the officials and judges would have notified the referee. How could they declare Maggie the loser and BB the winner?
What was with the priest? I'm not Catholic, but I don't think priests would drop the "F bomb"- and be so rude and negative with Frankie. This was the only one in the movie and completely unrealistic and unnecessary.
I enjoyed the movie. I think the performances by Swank, Eastwood and Freeman were great, and I don't begrudge them (Swank and Freeman) their Oscars -especially in light of the other performances that year, but due to the major flaws related above, it should NOT have won best picture.