Heart And Love In Million Dollar Baby

Million Dollar Baby is a film of loss, perseverance, and love. Through the heartbreak, and trials of life the film depicts characters having heart. The characters show heart in the film by rendering motivation, kindness and love. Scrap, Maggie, Frankie, and Danger all different characters have different backgrounds and differences in their life. However, they all show in various ways what it means to have heart and live life.
The tall old black man who wears worn down clothes is tough and has heart. The old black man’s face is wrinkled with a gray beard with one eye slightly swollen and blind. Scrap is his name. He walks around slowly, almost with limp probably because of his once long career in fighting. He will sit down at times and looks exhausted. But Scrap is more than an old man working as a janitor in the old run down gym. He walks and talks with a purpose, he has heart. He is the kind of man that spends more money on the good Lysol to clean the gym. …show more content…
He was family to Maggie. Maggie’s family did not care for her, they cared for money. Frankie is holding on to hope, but Maggie is not. She had to lose a leg. She starts to lose hope. She would bite her tongue to hurt herself and did that more than once. Frankie did not want to Euthanatize Maggie, but eventually did to stop her suffering as she wanted. He had the heart to do what she wanted.
Million Dollar Baby is partly narrated and eventually realized at the end is a letter written by Scrap to be given to Frankie’s daughter. Sorrow and uncertainty are felt at the conclusion of the film. The viewer feels in their heart the emotions of the film. The characters all different in the way they were brought up had their own sorrows and difficulties. Through these difficulties, strength, courage, and kindness are all reflected in the film. Million Dollar Baby is film about much more than sorrow, emotion, motivation, it’s about