Frankie gives Maggie a "boxer name". Why do we not know the meaning before the end?

I want to understand why Frankie didn't give the meaning of "Mo Cuishle" before the end of the movie.

Can someone explain this?

Best Answer

Frankie was estranged from his daughter and Maggie was the closest thing to a replacement. If he had told her directly it probably would have been unwelcome to Maggie. It would have been a point of pain for Frankie and she had a family of her own. So it allowed him to say to Maggie what she meant to him in a nonthreatening way.

At the end of the movie she had become estranged from her family and he is trying to communicate to her what a loss to him it would be if she died.

At that point he basically had nothing to lose by saying what it meant.

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What does the ending of Million Dollar Baby mean?

In the penultimate scene, after Frankie ends Maggie's life and disappears into the night, it's revealed that all of Scrap's narration throughout the entire movie has been the text of a letter he's writing to Katy, Frankie's estranged daughter.

Why does Maggie bite her tongue?

After losing a leg to gangrene, Maggie asks Frankie to kill her, as living in this condition is intolerable to her, but he will not. After Maggie bites through her tongue in an effort to bleed to death, however, he changes his mind.

Why did Frankie train Maggie?

Maggie keeps practicing at the Hit Pit anyway, and when Frankie's best fighter, Big Willie Little, jumps ship for another less cautious manager, Frankie agrees to train Maggie. When he's not working with Maggie, he attends mass everyday, seemingly just to antagonize his priest.

What happens to Maggie in Million Dollar Baby?

She takes a deadly shot at Maggie's blind side and sends her landing on her head on the corner stool, breaking her neck. Maggie suffers spinal neck injury that leaves her paralyzed for life. The last 1/4 of the movie is about euthanasia and human morals.

♣ Million Dollar Baby || ☪ Mo Cuishle (TJC)

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