Daughter is the best boxer God has ever given her father---- comment on "Million Dollar Baby"

Free theater on-demand on TV always seems to favor Eastwood's films, and every time you go in, there are only three list of films, either "Father's Flag" or "Classic Car", although I have not seen two movies in its entirety, the movie picture is always with a dim and somber atmosphere, immersed in a reflective darkness.

Although it was released in 2004, it was the first movie I saw in 2015, because I had not been very interested in boxing genres before. The plot and characters of "Million Dollar Baby", and even the style of the camera, are undoubtedly very well done. A little dissection reveals such a great gain. There are quite a few deep meanings in a good script. Here, I will discuss with you what I have gained.

First, role change

Frankie's identity undergoes a tortuous but interesting transformation, and he begins as a wounded nurse, that is, a "protector". He couldn't stop Willie's blood, and in order to protect Willie, Frankie told him to let his opponents beat him, hoping that he would be able to lose and end the game as soon as possible.

Eddie's blind eyes are memories he can't forget, so he has always taken a negative attitude, blindly avoiding his pain in the name of protecting Willie.

His attitude towards life at this time was that of the bottle of bleach: "How many times have I told you,

Buy bleach to buy cheap ones, don't buy expensive ones. “

Eddie: "Expensive ones smell better." “

Frankie: "Bleaching water is bleaching water".

Yet Willie is eager to break through this cage of excessive sexual protection, leaving Frankie behind, finding a new agent and playing his own title. This is a common practice, but it is in the midst of a piercing indifference. On the one hand, Willie easily left the coach who had been with him for 8 years in front of the porch with a "sorry" word. Willie, on the other hand, initially met with the agent without even greeting them, and there was no basic human communication, but eventually the word interest coldly hung them up.

In fact, the film also constantly repeats the agent's running away in the actor's dialogue to highlight this irony. As a result, Frankie becomes a self-pitying clown. Who wouldn't want a boxer they've personally trained to ascend to the championship and win the world's fame in one fell swoop? But he would rather be a behind-the-scenes angel, heal the wounds, and talk about home, because he is afraid of pain, and every day he stares into Eddie's eyes as if a weak believer is being reprimanded by the gods.

So, he began to reflect seriously, never expecting that this reflection was just a big joke that God had made to him.

In the training of Maggie, Frankie becomes a mentor, the so-called "nurturer".

From initial denial, rejection, to reluctant acceptance, to later careful teaching and training, step by step, to the point of doing it himself, Frankie turned to the positive side. But this positivity still can't hide his nature as a protector, he knows that easy success will always come with crisis, so he privately rejects many events, and still maintains a hopeful attitude towards Maggie's change of agent, and he still can't shake his fears.

"Protect yourself at all times" is a true portrayal of this period. His reflections seemed fruitful, not arrogant, and every step was so cautious and error-free.

In the last half hour, the whole story suddenly becomes a double punishment from God for Frankie. From the perspective of a "protector", the greatest torture is to watch the person you want to protect suffer physical pain, but you can only bear the severe pain of the soul alone, and survive in regret. And from the perspective of the "cultivator", the greatest torment is to watch God slowly destroy the miracle you have created with all your heart and blood and do nothing about it.

Frankie's whole being was weakened, and even the condition was relayed to him by Maggie through the nurse. He was defeated by God's jokes. However, in the end, at Maggie's request, Frankie is fused by the entanglement of life and death into a combination of "protector" and "murderer", to be precise, as a "physical murderer" to complete the mission of "protector of the heart", defending Maggie's dream and dignity.

He seemed to look at a life in its entirety, born alive from his hands to destruction. What the daily confessions in church end up with is the priest's exhortation to "forget God, Heaven and Hell." God, on the other hand, interprets a pessimistic proposition of "creation is destruction" through Frankie, and at the same time uses Maggie to sublimate the uninhibited metaphor of "creation is eternity", drawing a complete but crisscrossing circle of life, role and thought.

Second, emotional intermingling

Equally commendable in the film is the perfect integration of the father-daughter relationship between Maggie and Frankie. In fact, the mutual respect between mentors and boxers, the affection between fathers and daughters, these elements abound in many similar films, and the key is how to make the two truly blend.

The story is brilliant. Many people want their children to inherit their careers. It is not necessary to work hard to the north and south of the river, but at least until the old age and decline, you can also get solace from the children on the spiritual level, and in the film, Frankie can be seen waving his limbs during several games, as if he is also in the middle of the field.

But he was old.

This unfolds in Frankie and Maggie's plot about her family: Frankie has a fault in his expectations for the next generation, he only knows that his daughter once liked to run but doesn't know if she is still insisting, and he does not train girls; Maggie has a fault in the inheritance of the previous generation, and her father's departure leaves only a troublesome family. The screenwriter uses the mother as the main communicator of this inheritance of the fall. Obesity symbolizes laziness in reality, and laziness in dreams leads to nothing.

Against this backdrop, the two faults are chimeric together through boxing. He is willing to take this step, in addition to being touched by her persistence, but more importantly, to satisfy the spiritual inheritance and let go with the help of Maggie. Just like many parents have regrets because they left a regret when they were young, they hope that their children can create a world.

And Maggie? She had never been in love, a humble career, and the age of Ben Four. Her mother hoped that she would quickly find someone to marry, and her long-cherished wish in this life would be over. Repeatedly labeled as the weak, female power becomes her obstacle. She knows that she must break through the mundane life with superhuman will, and this requires the help of male strength.

The room without a TV, the solid muscles on the body, and the flesh and blood arena all reveal the cruelty of reality. So, a father-like trainer is the best support she's ever had. Because of this, in the process of training, the father-daughter relationship can take root on such a solid foundation. Maggie's courage radiates the brightest light in care, that is, the courage to knock down her opponent as long as Frankie can break the bridge of her broken nose, accompanied by a look of pain and the sound of bones, which seems brave but sad.

At the same time, the film also provides more details to support the whole father-daughter emotion:

1) There are many scenes in the film where Maggie sits on stage and talks, like simulating the daily conversation between a father and an 8-year-old daughter.

2) Maggie takes Frankie to her father's favorite little restaurant to eat lemon pie. (It just so happens that Frankie wants to eat too)

3. In front of Frankie, Maggie reveals the innocence of a little girl to her relatives. When Frankie gets the video of her opponent, she can be so excited that she gives him a bear hug; during the London game, a lecterial address to the announcer asks Maggie to tell him about the fantasies of the little girl.

4) There is another overlooked detail at the end of the movie, that is, Frankie kissed her on the cheek three times in total. He said "he would pull out his respirator and she would just fall asleep and then sleep forever." The last kiss is actually a father with tens of millions of reluctance, good night to his daughter's bedtime kiss, and kiss good bye.

5, of course, in the end, as a clue throughout the theme, there is no shortage of the touching "Mokushler" (my beloved, my flesh and blood).

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The topic of dignity and life is best answered in Eddie's words. "Every day people are dying, mopping the floor, washing the dishes, do you know what their last thought was?" I've never had a chance. Because of you, Maggie got her chance, and if she dies today, do you know what her last thoughts are? I think I'm doing a good job. I believe that many people who have watched the film are pondering this passage repeatedly, because the letter at the end of the poem is not only addressed to Frankie's daughter, but also to all the audiences here.

The song of the intestines came to an abrupt end after Frankie left. No one knows where he is, but I guess it's in the cabin in the poem, hidden in the faint sound of piano and guitar.