Million Dollar Baby

Saw this on some list of best boxing movies of all time (or was it highest grossing?). Had to check it out again.

I always thought it was worth the praise that it got, but still a little surprise cause it got an awful lot of it.

It’s strangely heart warming and depressing at the same time. Just a weird string of emotions.

Now, I saw the movie a long time ago but seeing it now is interesting as a fewof  the small supporting roles are played by actors who would become more wildly known, like Mike Colter (Luke Cage) Anthony Mackie (the Falcon in the Captain America film series ) and Micheal Pena (Whose done a lot of cool stuff, but has also been in a Marvel production (Ant-Man). Everyone’s going to do a Marvel movie one day. Maybe that’s two time academy award winner Hilary Swank’s way back to the top. See if we can fit her into some tights.

Like a good boxing movie, Million dollar Baby is about those people that life has given up on, but have yet given up on themselves. It’s the type of determination that inspires.

Although, at the same time what makes this movie kinda depressing is that these people seem to only have only one thing to live for and that was all that matters, so much more than life itself that they gave up on it once they could not do that one thing.

And it’s very fitting that this ideal is given in a boxing movie.

It’s that dash or realism that really makes it perfect.