Neumayr on Clint's euthanasia movie

I'm a fan of Eastwood, but in this fight I take Neumayr's side, unequivocally:

Hollywood is set to honor at the Oscars a violent film that culminates in murder. The Passion of the Christ? No, Million Dollar Baby. Hollywood couldn't bear to see Jesus Christ suffer and die for man's sins, but it watches with bated breath and an approving gaze as Clint Eastwood in Million Dollar Baby kills a disabled female boxer with a grim efficiency worthy of Dirty Harry. Criminal euthanasia is an act of gratuitous violence that Hollywood will celebrate.

Normally fans of "obscenity," Hollywood luminaries dusted that word off and used it as a criticism of Mel Gibson's movie. He had "obscenely" and graphically depicted the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. How morbid, they said. But Hollywood's taste for morbidity suddenly reappears in Million Dollar Baby, which lovingly presents an act of euthanasia that is so stark and shameless many doctors in the Netherlands probably wouldn't even perform it.