Go ahead make me dead

or "Feelin' Lucky?!?"
Steve Drake of Not Dead Yet reviews Clint Eastwood's pro-euthanasia hit and its critical acclaim here : http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/reviews/drakemillionbaby.html The money quote, "This movie is a corny, melodramatic assault on people with disabilities. It plays out killing as a romantic fantasy and gives emotional life to the "better dead than disabled" mindset lurking in the heart of the typical (read: nondisabled) audience member." But it is also worth the tack on why such films seem to universally receive critical praise, and not uniform praise to films in which disabled go about their daily lives. At least Clint Eastwood is not playing against type. His societal solutions as proposed in his Dirty Harry movies were of similar construct, 'we could clean up a lot of the world's problems by killing a few more people."

Hat tip to churchofthemasses http://www.churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/
via Amy Welborn http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/1660299
for the reference to Steve Drake's review.