A MILLION DOLLAR BABY . A REVIEW

I love Clint Eastwood. I loved him as an actor though I found him a bit too tough, but as a director he is great, superb, he is just a genious, and the way he combines both jobs is still more amazing . He is just brilliant, or as I read some time ago "at the peak of his powers".
I am not fond of boxing, what is more I think it is something I can´t understad : too much violence, too much money, too much suffering, but with this film I have learnt to see it much more like a sport, like a way of improving oneself . Clint has taught me at least, and I am sure he has also shown to everybody the dignity of this sport.
Clint deals with many important themes for all human beings :
- Family relationships , family ties (He shows Maggie´s beloved family, a family unable to love or apreciate her in any way : Clint´s only family, his daughter , never seen but presnt all through the film, from the very beginning till the end ; Peligro´s family, we know very little about them , but enough, we know the good education his mother tried to give him ...)
-Friendship : The best example of perfect friends , the aging trainer, Fankie Dunn and his former fighter , Scrap , Frankie and Maggie, ...
-Euthasnasia
-Catholic religion , faith, church,the seeking of God. Maggie wore a crucifix when she was asking Frankie to help her to end her life.
-Unconditional Love , the love Frankie showed when he made plans to live in a cottage with Maggie being unable to move or breath on her own , he also made plans for Maggie , he suggested her going to University on a wheelchair .
Well , this is the way I see it, and I can also add that the film made me cry and I don´t cry easily

BOOKS-BOOK-BOOKS........

HENRY JAMES

He was unique, he was really hardworking, a great traveller, but what it´s more important, he brought to Europe the psichology of the Americans of his century and brought to America the knowledge of the Europeans as he had experienced during the long periods of time he had spent in the most important places of Britain, Italy, France, Greece,.... he was like a bridge between the two worlds.

"http://www.online-literature.com/henry_james/
Henry James (1843-1916), American-born writer, gifted with talents in literature, psychology, and philosophy. James wrote 20 novels, 112 stories, 12 plays and a number of works of literary criticism. Henry James was born on April 15, 1843 in New York City into a wealthy family. His father, Henry James Sr. was one of the best-known intellectuals in mid-nineteenth-century America. In his youth James traveled back and forth between Europe and America. He studied with tutors in Geneva, London, Paris, Bologna and Bonn. At the age of 19 he briefly attended Harvard Law School, but preferred reading literature to studying law..."

I love his novels, I´ve enjoyed everyone of them from the The Wings of the Dove, to The Aspern Papers, I recomend him if you want to experience the pleasure of reading the one of the best novelist in the world.

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2006

Hello!
This is my first post in this new year