Extremely moving

Rating: 10/10 (6 February 2005)

Clint Eastwood has done it again. Tough, violent and extremely moving. Million dollar baby is his best third work before the camera, (I think his first was Unforgiven, and his second Bird- unbelievably underrated-). Eastwood knows about boxing movies, and He knows that black and white is the best to shoot a boxing movie, but he also knows that nowadays everybody remember excellent Ranging Bull, so He tries a new way to shoot it: Lights and shadows. He creates the atmosphere with lights and shadows in the gym and in hospital scenes. It's an old game that Eastwood plays along the movie. But he has another trick... A great storyline. And Eastwood, a very good director, turns a typical boxing movie into a powerful losers drama which would make Eastwood himself cry. The best American movie of this 2005 Oscar, very far away from dull and dusty The Aviator.