Clint Eastwood's current movie, "Million Dollar Baby" is making a run at the Best Picture award, and according to film critic and radio talk show host Michael Medved is doing so with misleading marketing.
Based on the many TV ads, what do you think is the main theme of the movie? Boxing. But what they don't tell you is the surprise ending where one of the main characters euthanizes the other with an act that prosecutors have described as premeditated murder. This act is portrayed in the movie as some sort of loving and caring act, as though it's the way the lives of every disabled person should end. Disabled groups have been some of the strongest critics of the film, but the Hollywood blowback has ignored them and gone after Medved instead. Medved's criticism of the movie has been turned into a right vs. left and a censorship argument and is probably being overblown by the movie company to drum up Oscar support.
Michael decided to respond to the criticism of his criticism with a piece in the Wall Street Journal.
Thursday, February 17, 2005
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