Million Dollar Baby

A great movie I've seen recently!

If I was not in the process of working out and keeping fit now, I might not have felt so strongly about this movie. Now I know how difficult it is to become a successful athlete and how much resolution you need to have to keep perserverant. Everybody sat around me was weeping in the theater, even my male friend sobbed in the end of the movie. I was sad, because Hilary Swank was such a sweet and strong girl, and Clint Eastwood was such a nice and father-like boss in the movie. The combination of the two characters touched me because they were like family, becoming each other's support and spirits in the their lives of boxing.

It makes me think of my dad, a completely devoted nice guy and the most important one in my life, far away from me now in Taiwan. If I didn't have a father like him, I wouldn't have been moved by this movie so deeply either. Whether he is beside me or not, he is always with me and I feel the strongest support from him of any decision I've made.

Anyways, I enjoy watching movies. I enjoy repeatly watching the same movie too. If it was an old movie, I have different feeling now from watching it before in Taiwan with Chinese subtitle. Watching in the theater is also different from watching it at home. I mean, when I was in the theater, there's no subtitle, so I have to concentrate on the faces and expression of the actors to understand when they tried to express. But if I am home watching DVD with subtitles (I always pretend that I am deaf, cuz the subtitles are designed for people with hearing impediments), I focuses more on how they used the words and couldn't help staring at the subtitles (which is bad for my listening, I know). The same movie always gives me different feeling and inspiration each time. Besides, I have good short-term memories but I forget easily (is it kind of disease?? But the good thing is I don't keep bad memory for a long time either), so every time the movie becomes a whole new experience to me. Isn't it fun?