vox_rox

Actually, not quite right. The film is NOT about one person's choice to die. The movie is about the struggle to live life, and to take the road that you choose, and to accept whatever that road offers you as a consequence of your choices.

The central act in this film is not the death of Maggie, it is the success she lived because of her determination to do what she really wanted to do. The actual act of death is not about killing paraplegics or quadraplegics because they have no value, it is about respect for the choice of others.

Would I have euthanized Maggie? No I would not have. But as Roger Ebert so succinctly put it, what kind of movies would we have if everyone did everything we thought they should.

This is Story Telling, not instruction. This is, as Eastwood said, a "what if" scenario, not a manifesto on what we should do with poeple suffering with spinal cord injuries.

What this movie ofers is great art diection, excellent dialogue that creates deep and feeling characters that move the plot nicely, and an engaging story of people who are struggling through life with self-doubt, regret, and even joy, things that make all of our lives full, and things we have all experienced to varying degrees.

See the movie for a really good movie. Don't see the movie looking for some moralistic tale, because that is not what I saw, and I don't think that's what it was meant to be.

And to everyone who is protesting this movie because it somehow disagrees with their nature, maybe the issue is not a physical handicap, but rather a mental handicap that prevents true understanding of something as simple as a good story, well told.

Peace,

Pierre

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