まさかの展開に驚かされる映画、ミリオンダラーベイビー(Million dollar baby)

Short plot
Margaret Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank), a waitress from a Missouri town in the Ozarks, shows up in the Hit Pit, a run-down（荒廃した） Los Angeles gym owned and operated by Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood), a brilliant but only marginally （辛うじて）successful boxing trainer. Maggie asks Dunn to train her, but he angrily responds that he "doesn't train girls."
Maggie attempts to win Frankie over by working out tirelessly each day in his gym, even when others discourage her. Frankie's friend and employee, ex-boxer Eddie "Scrap Iron" Dupris (Morgan Freeman), encourages and helps her all he can. "Scrap" also narrates the story.
Frankie's prize prospect, "Big" Willie Little, reluctantly signs with successful manager Mickey Mack after becoming impatient with Dunn turning down offers for a championship bout.
With prodding (促される）from Scrap and impressed with her persistence, Frankie reluctantly agrees to train Maggie. He warns her that he will teach her only the basics and then find her another trainer. His most important advice is to protect herself in the ring at all times.
Before her first fight, Frankie leaves her with another manager, much to her dismay, but rejoins her in the middle of the bout, and coaches her to victory. Maggie makes him promise not to abandon her again. Maggie turns out to be a natural. She fights her way up in the women's welterweight （ウエルター級）boxing division, winning many of her bouts with first-round knockouts. Estranged （遠ざけられる）from his own daughter, who returns his letters unopened, Frankie comes to establish an almost paternal bond with Maggie...

Reviews
"Million Dollar Baby" transforms from a boxing movie into one of the most heart-wrenching（胸が締め付けられる）, character-driven dramas （性格劇）the silver screen has ever seen before.

It's easy to see why this film swept the Academy Awards. Swank and Freeman give the performances of their careers. (It was a real shame that Eastwood was snubbed（冷遇される） in the Best Actor category...he truly deserved to win.)

I don't want to give away any additional details about the movie, but the plot is full of surprises, and the ending is one that you won't expect and might have a hard time dealing with. "Million Dollar Baby" isn't the kind of movie I'll want to watch again and again...it takes too much of an emotional toll (精神的ダメージ）on you to watch it more than once. However, it is definitely one of the most amazing movies I've seen in recent years, and quite possibly one of the most powerful films in movie history.
Another Eastwood's masterpiece. Hillary Swan, Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman are superb in this movie: their characters are superb, sometimes emotional, troubled, anxious, almost real. The music and the photography make this move unforgetable.
A twist in the plot occurs when Swank's character is severely injured during a fight, which dramatically alters both her life and the life of her manager. The conclusion of the film is intense and highly impactful, and it will leave you thinking about what you would do in the same situation.

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