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Million Dollar Baby seems to be one of those films that you either love or you hate.

I don’t think I have ever seen a film so melodramatic, soppy, stereotypical, predictable. In every single way, perhaps except for the camerawork, the film was made of elements seen before ad nauseam, only now jumbled together in an even larger group than usual. Especially the plot was horridly pulpish, and the symbolism unbearable. The ending, which I must say I don’t regret I missed, was even worse (as I have been told), at a time when one could not imagine the klichés to continue, the sobbing to go on, the melodrama to peak further....