Watched “Million Dollar Baby” this evening. Dark, dark, dark. A beautiful work of cinema. The physicality and emotional rawness of the roles really spoke to me. In the end though, when Eastwood’s character finally realizes that there’s no God out there … at least no God who can help with the really difficult crap of life and death here on earth … that moved me. Also, any movie with Clint Eastwood, primarily narrated by Morgan Freeman, and involving a fit woman doing hundreds of sit-ups … it’s all right by me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Watched “Million Dollar Baby” this evening. Dark, dark, dark. A beautiful work of cinema. The physicality and emotional rawness of the roles really spoke to me. In the end though, when Eastwood’s character finally realizes that there’s no God out there … at least no God who can help with the really difficult crap of . . . → Read More: Million dollar baby<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}