Monday, January 31, 2005
Play Million Dollar Baby For Me
The obsession with this film continues. If you have seen it, please share your "nut graf" of the movie with me, either by posting a comment or email. A nut graf is the paragraph in a news article that sums up the story for the reader succinctly. Think of it this way -- if your reader could only read one paragraph, this should be the one that tells him or her everything he or she needs to know.
And away we go!
Desiree Koh
Boxing is one of the most poetic metaphors to life because it's graceful, physically challenging and mentally demanding, and it can make you a hero in the middle of the ring but a fallen castaway in the wrong corner. With humility, morality and the gentle hand of someone who's atoned from being sent into the brush by Sergio Leone and dirtied by the1970s grit of New York City, Clint Eastwood directs a film of tragic Shakespearan level -- hope and hopelessness, triumph and letting go, pride and mortality, friendship and betrayal -- as moving as the silhouette ofHilary Swank working on her speed bag.
Jit Fong Chin
Men try to be good father figures, but they can't control everything and choices arise out of chances and fate.
Sam Miller
Being strong means being flexible, not rigid or determined.
Blythe Bernhard
Blood alone does not a family make. Life is not tried, it is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire.
Caroline Sietmann
It's about taking a chance. And falling hard. It's about being able to say that you took the chance. That you lived.
And away we go!
Desiree Koh
Boxing is one of the most poetic metaphors to life because it's graceful, physically challenging and mentally demanding, and it can make you a hero in the middle of the ring but a fallen castaway in the wrong corner. With humility, morality and the gentle hand of someone who's atoned from being sent into the brush by Sergio Leone and dirtied by the1970s grit of New York City, Clint Eastwood directs a film of tragic Shakespearan level -- hope and hopelessness, triumph and letting go, pride and mortality, friendship and betrayal -- as moving as the silhouette ofHilary Swank working on her speed bag.
Jit Fong Chin
Men try to be good father figures, but they can't control everything and choices arise out of chances and fate.
Sam Miller
Being strong means being flexible, not rigid or determined.
Blythe Bernhard
Blood alone does not a family make. Life is not tried, it is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire.
Caroline Sietmann
It's about taking a chance. And falling hard. It's about being able to say that you took the chance. That you lived.
// posted by Desiree @ 9:17 PM 
