Million Dollar Baby

There are films that succeed in the double objective of being true masterpieces of cinema and of telling the poetics of those who direct those films. This is the case of the Million Dollar Baby Oscar-winning film in 2005. A Hollywood monster like Clint Eastwood will direct it. After making millions of people in the western genre fall in love, thanks to his memorable acting performances, he passed behind the camera where he became one of the most appreciated directors of contemporary cinema with great success. A simple direction, never baroque and refined, with a clean and essential touch. The ability to know how to tell and excite with his stories has always hit the mark. With Million Dollar Baby, Eastwood's filmography reaches its peak. Assisted by a Hilary Swank never so perfect and a Morgan Freeman in a state of grace, the director of Gran Torino manages to direct a film able to excite and speak to the spectator as few other times had happened to him. The story of a poor and marginalized woman who pursues a dream, an atypical dream like that of becoming a professional boxer, intersects the twilight path of an old style box teacher and her brave adventure companion.
The roads of the 2 will intertwine and despite the reluctance of the old coach will end up giving birth to a beautiful collaboration not only sporting. Maggie will end up finding in Frankie a paternal figure that the latter, despite appearances, will incarnate with great pleasure behind his tough and gruff old man's mask. Destiny is sometimes known to be mocking. It will happen that when the pieces of the puzzle are properly aligned one of those tiles will fall, shattering the entire mosaic. It's a story that brings together all the themes dear to Clint Eastwood. The American dream, the value of emotions, the color of emotions, the human capital that we often forget, human contact, self-giving to others, selfishness and altruism that manifest themselves in the same story, in the same life. Frankie didn't want to open up to a girl who needed to believe in something, but maybe that was what she needed. Maggie never imagined she was so loved and respected yet perhaps she just needed someone to believe in her. The happy ending does not come in Million Dollar Baby and yet in a sense it is as if it had arrived. When 2 people meet succeeding in improving one another's life then perhaps a small miracle has happened. Misfortune, illness, death will never be so sweet. At least for a day, at least for a period of time we managed to touch happiness, to live dreams and hopes to the full and above all to share them with someone else