Appalled at the praise

Rating: 1/10 (5 January 2006)

*Note* I seen this movie in the theaters when it first came out Having said that, I'm extremely shocked that this movie is receiving such praise. The movie plays on everyone prejudices to make a story and supposedly to give society a wake up call. But in fact, the only thing it is doing is making people even more afraid to speak their minds because they are trying to be politicly correct. I'm not saying things like what are portrayed in the movie don't happen. I live in the South so I've seen/heard some of the worst racism you could imagine. With that in mind, the movie's characters are each changed due to racism in an extremely exaggerated manner. This was Hollywood's "Trying to make Society a better place" movie but in reality all it was was a "Make everyone think it's a hard hitting movie so we can make some money" movie. In conclusion, this movie had a very unrealistic feel to it. It did have some great acting but not matter how good the actors were, the story was still plain out bad.