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Originally Posted by Bunnyears
How do you know how the real Maggie feels or for that matter how any paraplegic feels? The movie never deals with feelings or emotions. It is as cold a piece of work as any I have ever seen on the screen. That is why the manipulation of the audience's emotions is so very abhorrent. The audience is manipulated so shamelessly that you will cheer while Maggie is winning and you will be saying kill her at the end.
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You are not seeing the movie from an objective/artistic perspective, but from a very offended point of view. Noone can change that but you, but maybe you don't want to change that, so there's no point in arguing. You are obviously very sensitive to this topic and I'm noone to change that or help you on dealing with it. But I wholeheartedly disagree with all you say above.
Saying the movie exploits euthanasia is saying "Shindler's list" exploits mass murder and racism and antisemitism. Well, those are the topics being explored and portrayed in his movie. It will always (or can always) look like exploitation for someone sensitive to the topic. Same with paintings, or literary work, or anything basically, it's all in the eyes of the beholder.
Saying "Million dollar baby" never deals with feelings or emotions is plain wrong imho. Saying it is as cold a piece of work as any is also simply bashing senselessly (again ihmo). Saying the movie "moves" (rather than manipulate) the audience emotions would make sense. But all drama movies do that, or try to, don't they? Saying that the audience is manipulated "shamelessly" is just your opinion, and I wholeheartedly disagree with that.
But again, there's no point in arguing. Art does impress some people and offend some others at the same time, and little can be done about it.
You are still ignoring my reference to Saving Private Ryan, but I won't pursue the argumentation. There's no need for you to justify your indignation, you are offended by "Million dollar baby", well, that's the way it is, I can't do anything about it but show my take on it as I've done here.