"Surprise and surprise don't know which comes first"

Barrett 2022-10-03 00:44:03

I have always felt that after watching an excellent movie, if you don’t write down your thoughts, or don’t recall the plot and lines in the movie, there will always be regrets. When the director presents his movie to the audience, the movie It doesn't belong to the director alone. You can interpret it yourself. Whatever you can get from it will be yours, whether it's wealth or insight. When I first saw this movie, I noticed the starring Morgan Freeman. Personally, I liked this gray-haired but energetic grandfather artist. The subject matter of the story is sports, and it is about boxing. It seems that this type of film attracts the attention of many directors who are used to making commercial films. As long as you tell the story of a person who persists and never gives up for the dream and finally realizes himself and even surpasses himself, he can earn the audience's sense of resonance. After all, there are not many people at the bottom who are fighting for their dreams in real life, and we are all eager to get example and inspiration from the outside world. The "Fighting" and "Iron Fist" that I have watched before are all about boxing, and the endings are all pleasing to the heart. As an audience, I always have a little sense of substitution, I believe that the protagonist has to do his best when he sees blood all over his face. When the doctor was asked to defeat him in three more rounds as long as he could stop the bleeding, the blood in his heart filled the screen in minutes. We are all eager to fight for our ideals, and as long as we have the opportunity, we must have no reservations. Okay, let's talk about this movie. Frankie, an elderly boxing trainer. He is very accurate in seeing people, and he has personally led many champions. He is a rare mentor. He has a set of meticulous and rigorous boxing theories. In addition to supervising the endless repeated training of the students in the boxing gym, he also writes letters to his daughter who has not been in contact with him for a long time, but the result is that he is rejected every time. The coach also has a long-time friend, Eddie played by Morgan. The first half of the film has his monologue, explaining the characters and stories. Maggie, a girl from a complicated family with boxing dreams. Frankie only sees the problem between father and daughter, while Maggie's family seems to be full of more absurdities, and the film even deliberately describes such a family relationship in the second half. Most of the respect we long for, whether it is for our own dreams or external personality, actually comes from having a complete and harmonious family. Maggie lived in such a family that was not respected and understood, her mother's power was unreasonable, and her other relatives had no caring heart. The depth of Maggie's loneliness translates into her love of boxing. Maybe for Maggie, this is not just her own ideals, it also includes a lot of love and warmth that are absent in real life. Maggie's love for boxing finally influenced Frankie. He was originally a person who was relatively closed and suppressed and yearned for redemption because of his unfavorable relationship with his daughter. In the long-term relationship with Maggie, he slowly opened his heart, and the fiery person under the cold exterior gradually revealed. I think it's all down to the respect and understanding they get from each other. I have been thinking about the intention of Eddie's role. He is like a bystander who has nothing to do, but he can give important suggestions at critical times. Many words that are diffracted by boxing into all aspects of life are also spoken from his mouth. . He seems to be the kind of person everyone aspires to be. He is free and easy, steady and wise, with a calm temperament, and the sophistication of getting rid of the death. All kinds of good things appear in him. With the help of Frankie, Maggie won many championships. She bought a house for her mother but was reprimanded by her mother, so she could just take the money. Until she finally became seriously ill, the first thought of a mother was to transfer her daughter's property first. It can be seen that under this kind of family, all love, tolerance and understanding have become prisoners of money and power. At the end of the film, Maggie, Eddie, and Frankie were not seen laughing and toasting at the celebration feast after the game, calling for blood and dignity. At the end, Maggie, who was defeated in the battle, was lying in the hospital and was completely paralyzed, forced to amputate her limbs, and finally pleaded with the fact that Frankie was euthanized by having her trachea removed. But I understand that for Maggie, she will have no regrets. As long as she doesn't miss the opportunity, as long as she does her best in the opportunity, she has no regrets. Life is complete, and there is no regret in death. It's just that the sentimentality left to the audience will continue, and our sentimentality for the beauty of human nature is always so fragile. Surprise and accident do not know which comes first, I can only meet every praise and test of life with full marks. As the coach unplugged the tube for her, he explained what that word meant. my Darling my blood ! Tears welled up in my eyes at that moment. I imagine that Eastwood, who starred and directed, wanted to use a sport like boxing to tie its winning philosophy to life practice. The more you want to hit the hard punch, the more you have to step back, but it's useless to get out of the fence. Life is not like this. There is also the title of this film, my understanding is that as long as you seize the opportunity and spare no effort to make your real self, even if there is no superego state to bring you the peak of life, you are worth the sentence, million dollar baby!

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Million Dollar Baby quotes

  • Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: Some people say the most important thing a fighter can have is heart. Frankie'd say: show me a fighter who was nothing but heart and I'll show you a man waiting for a beating.

  • Frankie Dunn: [about Danger] He paid his dues?

    Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: Dues? The boy can't afford pants, you want him to pay dues?

    Frankie Dunn: Get out of my office!