Mar 062006
Crash was the best movie of the year? Really? I’m not saying the film was utterly horrible (unlike Michael and Jessa over at Bookslut, both of whom I suspect of plotting serious bodily harm against the film’s director and producers), but it did feel like an overly long ABC Afterschool Special. Racism is bad. Got that, kids? I haven’t seen Brokeback Mountain yet, so I’m not qualified to comment on that film’s merits, but I am curious to know whether supposedly liberal Hollywood has an unacknowledged streak of homophobia running through it.
I haven’t seen Brokeback….probably won’t either. the movie is an interest to a small population…why would it qualify for an award from the masses?
i was disappointed North Country didn’t get a nomination….it was a far better movie than Crash….that is my personal opinion. Crash had no real plot…just a bunch of scenes…dipping into different people’s lives….a series of racial events with no resolutions…just the pain of racism. North Country, on the other hand, had plot, suspense, humour, tragedy and resolutions to the issues. it addressed issues that the whole world sees. the iron range was and still is a sexist community. the movie describes the culture very well. the sexist attitude permeates every work place in that region, and around the world. it depicted events i experienced when i lived there. it depicted events women described to me…..experiences working in the mines….the sexist comments…the physical abuse. many many women there are victims of sexual abuse. that abuse and the behaviors that follow effect the very core of our society. there should be a law that prevents lawyers from allowing the courts to victimize the victim by bringing issues not related to the actual abuse in to the courtroom. by exposing a woman’s past sex life to justify sexual harassment at the workplace is simply wrong.
what i would like to know…why didn’t north country get a nomination? it was certainly a better movie than crash.